AREITU wrote:One of my friend's dad was in training for becoming an architecture many many years ago. He awoke to the fact that he'd be slaving over something and get paid jack and get treated like trash...so he quit college and went off to sell stuff. Lumber and trusses, actually. It's kinda strange...anyway, he gets a lot of contracts with what he learned about architecture and wows potential customres by telling them how they can save money on their buildings...then they hire him for stuff. Like trusses and lumber...
Another one of my friends, who's turbo RX7 is slowly coming back to life, recently dropped out of Cal Poly (Architecture too) and he's going to pursue a biomedical degree at UC Riverside and go become a dentist. Where else can you make an average of $300,000/yr? Some bad breath, and some bad teeth aside...
Yeah, architecture is not for everyone for sure, it's more work than I ever could have imagined. There are times at the end of the quarter before final projects are due, that I literally don't sleep for a week straight, you're just in studio the whole time working on your project. All nighters are common and not such a problem, but when you start to pass the 3 days without sleep mark, you begin to question what the hell you are doing in arch. We have lost over half of the class since first year, they all drop out and go into graphic design mostly, or engineering, or something completely different. What was your friends name that dropped out of arch? because I remember someone that dropped out and went into a biomedical field recently. Was it at Cal Poly SLO, or Pomona?
