<p>Very good questions. Bottom line is that as an unique individual, you should do what you really and truly personally love to do. If you love architecture or design, go into it. Down the road, you may decide you love it less than something else, and you will redirect yourself in the appropriate direction. Remember that architecture and design is a field that includes much more than designing buildings and making drawings. There is the engineering aspect. Urban planning or real estate development. Workforce coordination. Business. Marketing. Consulting. Plus the community relations and client management aspects that some people enjoy more than others. These are all areas you can specialize in as your career develops.</p>
<p>A couple key points:</p>
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<li><p>For some people and for people at certain times in their life, there are more important things to them than just work, which affects what they “love to do.” Part of “loving to do” something might include, for example, having a job that lets you work 2 days a week.</p></li>
<li><p>At least half of people who get architecture degrees end up working in other fields. Just to use one example, in many areas of business (e.g., anything that has to do with facilities, long-term growth, organizational development or planning), an M.Arch. degree is just as good - or better - than an M.B.A.</p></li>
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