life

I want to quit architecture school and get a menial job that lets me eat, own a house and some synthesizers and smoke marijuana when I please.

i like architecture but didnt realize that it's impossible to not work overtime every week for the rest of my life.

watmm, please suggest an alternate career.

learn something handy like plumbing or wiring or something in construction. they pay good (eh, fairly good), are always in demand and have flexible hours (by appointment!).

piano tuning

but i have to be chinese to do piano tuning

How about IT work. All my friends make a good living and they were not doin machine code in their early teens.. They are just regular doods in their 30's. Got training and presto,, good paying job. I was thinking about doing it.

Move to England and I'll teach you how to tune cars. Before you do that though, I want you study in depth American muscle engines. Don't ask me which ones, you want the job just do it, all of them. An American working for the company with an intimatie knowledge of the American trade would be fucking brilliant here. We tune American muscle but it would look fucking diamond if we actually had an American here.

Do it.

where in england

I'm in position to employ anyone thats not my job so I don't know why I'm asking you to do this.

Ipswich

in NO* position

But you sure as hell would ghet a job, a good job. If you knew that shit. Well you would in England anyway.

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confusion arises

  On 12/2/2009 at 3:47 AM, mrcopyandpaste said:

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confusion arises

Have I never told you about my friend Matt?

you're going to regret it

big time

btw george, that sounds fun. i kin teach you all about the differences between an LS1/LS2/LS6, or maybe a 426 and a 440, or a 351W and a 351C... but I've got a job right now.

See I could tell you all about an X17DTH or a P1635 but I know nothing of American muscle.

And btw I know alla bout the pushrods and camshafts and short, long blocks short blocks etc, I know WHAT they are. I just don't physically know how to mechanically handle them.

  On 12/2/2009 at 3:11 AM, iamabe said:

 

watmm, please suggest an alternate career.

 

 

Architectural photography.

A friend of mine started off as a photo assistant and started taking photos along the way.

If you know other potential architects from school, it can only help.

Yeah sorry for partially hijacking thread back on topic.

I'm a first year architecture student. Should I be scared? It's already fucking intense, I've had little to no free time since school started in September

Landscape Gardener

  On 12/2/2009 at 4:14 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

I'm a first year architecture student. Should I be scared? It's already fucking intense, I've had little to no free time since school started in September

i got comfortable with my work pretty quickly but this fourth year is kicking my ass. stick with it another year and if you think its too much you should switch. i stayed because i think design is the best thing for me but fuck it's a lot of time committment.

and dude! you have 303 posts.

arch photographer sounds like a cool idea. actually the american muscle car thing does too.

synth tester sounds the coolest.

Have you thought about Graphic Design? I have no idea how education or even the working climate works in America but I have a bunch of Graphic designer friends who've just finished uni, had a great time studying it and still lived a pretty happy student type life. They have all gotten work pretty quickly one of them has even started his own busniess in furniture.

I always figured GD didn't pay well, and when it did it was sporadic

Throughout high school (and probably before) I wanted to be an architect and took some drafting and architecture classes. But then I got fucked up on drugs, lost focus of my long term goals, spent a few years at community college fucking off, finally realized I needed to pick a career and do something, and wound up doing graphic design.

It has its moments, pays well if you're good at it (particularly web these days) even with an associates degree, but I often regret not pursuing architecture. I know it would have been hard as hell but it was my passion back then. I still dig it a lot, and would consider architectural photography as well. In fact photography itself, no matter the subject, is something I've always been interested in too. But I'm camera shy. :( Meaning, I'm self-conscious when taking pictures of things.

Ya I know what you mean, my uncle's an architect and he's always answering calls from dubai.

You should move somewhere were medical cannabis is legal and grow it for dispenseries.

  On 12/2/2009 at 5:34 AM, sidewinder said:

Throughout high school (and probably before) I wanted to be an architect and took some drafting and architecture classes. But then I got fucked up on drugs, lost focus of my long term goals, spent a few years at community college fucking off, finally realized I needed to pick a career and do something, and wound up doing graphic design.

 

It has its moments, pays well if you're good at it (particularly web these days) even with an associates degree, but I often regret not pursuing architecture. I know it would have been hard as hell but it was my passion back then. I still dig it a lot, and would consider architectural photography as well. In fact photography itself, no matter the subject, is something I've always been interested in too. But I'm camera shy. :( Meaning, I'm self-conscious when taking pictures of things.

Nice name and I understand about the whole photographer's shyness.

i wish i was an architect but now i'm too old to get into a 5 year course.

so i say 'suck it up'.