Like any job, being an architect isn't always the best job in the world. But in light of these moments, keep your eye on the long game and you might realize that being an architect just might actually be the best job in the world.

I have had a very interesting past few days – the kind of interesting that confirms for me why I do what I do for a living. Every now and then I get a little beaten down from the act of doing my job and I start to feel more than a little weary and mentally exhausted. I’m definitely not complaining, but rather admitting that despite all the evidence to the contrary, sometimes being an architect is not the greatest job in the world.I am currently in Wisconsin, visiting my cabin project, literally sitting on the dock at the lake, drinking a beer and watching the sunset, and I am being quiet (which is not normal for me), when my client, who is amazingly interesting and considerate, looks over at me and makes her long-running joke about how she has broken her architect. I respond like I always do and tell her that I can’t be broken … I am a mix of Native American Indian and Norwegian and that combination is a genetic super mix of awesome and as a result, we are unbreakable. I do mean it when I say I can’t be broken – in fact, I am quiet because I am basking in the glow of a moment when I think being an architect is the greatest job in the world. I am watching this project come together in an amazing setting and I am a...