I have a four year Architecture Bachelors Degree from Miami’s, Florida International University South Campus. There is no future here in Architecture, and this profession should not be taut in school. There is no job stability, and no good employers either who really care about how you’re progressing.
The professors should know that there leading kids down the wrong path if they want a really stable and prosperous profession. I should have gone into computer Programing or something along those lines. If all you want to do is get a great education that’s fine, but in the professional world it is not a rewarding carrier. Most Architect’s pretend or have a “monopoly on the market” and the only well renowned Architects get the jobs, and or pass the business on to their children.
It is either feast or famine in the architecture world where Most of these well renowned architects use college students to do all of their work. And besides that, most of the owners cannot operate the computers because of the new technologies. They hire and fire to keep up with the new technologies. For example autocad comes out first, and was number one for 10 years, and now revit comes along.
So most will hire new students out of school who understand (not knowing it them selves or going back to school to learn it) how revit works. Architecture is a mess especially when the owner doesn’t care for their employees and leaves it all up to a young architect to run the employees or office management who doesn’t understand anything in the first place.
You maybe doing all the work as I was and then the work runs out and you’ll be laid off after a year and three months. I believe that the owner/architects (most wouldn’t on their own) should be retested after 5 years so that they don’t create a bad factory environment and to learn the new technologies so they don’t become stale.
You may be lucky, and last longer but who wants to gamble with your life. Architecture is a gamble, and in my opinion its like digging your own grave especially when the employer is spoiled and doesn’t care about anyone or anything but themselves! I hope I helped someone and this only took me with my over 10 years of architectural experience to figure this out. Another important layer of trouble or factor here in Miami Fl. is that I don’t speak Spanish and I’m not Spanish. Please don’t be led down this wrong path!