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I am the person who started the “Are you working or not ” discussion thread that has received a rich and healthy response so far. Your discussion thread is where I was hoping to take a lot of the angst, despair and frustration that has been seething in the “Are you working or not” thread and see if we can’t reverse that into some kind of…[Read more]

Yes, so far booked for 2010. ( golf courses, athletic fields, urban green roofs ) residential extremely slow .
my advice stick to the commercial arena for now.

Ooops, wrong thread response above. ….similar subject.

I’m not in a true urban area, yet just an hour and a half from Cambridge – urban streetscapes, transportation, and campus design are few and far between and dominated by the Cambridge companies. There just are not many RFPs out there in our area and when there is, we are contacted as subs as the big architecture and LA teams put together a team.…[Read more]

Public sector…transportation, urban design/streetscapes, parks, recreational trails/bike paths, public buildings, including college campus/buildings and schools. Minimal private sector..occasional retail (independent site development like a gas station/mini-mart). We’ve seen our work shift from about 60% public to more than 90%. This is the only…[Read more]

Andrew,
Your posting asked freelancers what they are doing and my idea was in response to the very desperate mood out there. You are really trying to market your company and that is a completely different animal with entirely different protocols. There is an endless body of ‘how-to’ marketing literature on the web you may want to look into. What…[Read more]

Real networking help has to be where the rubber hits the road. That is not about philosophy or politics so much as it is about finding out about current opportunities. What type of person or organization has shown any of us any kind of opportunity be that in a job or a design contract. One of the problems facing us is that many of us are unsure…[Read more]

I think its a cool idea. Maybe a good way to test the waters, if you will, without offending anyone, would be to post photos and a description of a project that no member was involved with the design of. Just to see how it goes, establish ground rules like no ad hominem attacks, etc. Maybe it could be something in your town that was recently built…[Read more]

Yeah – I know – it seems huge, amorphous, something on the edge of imagination and technology….

Do you think it would be a “too many cooks” kind of thing? Would our opinions and expertise be too widely divergent? Could we organize regionally? It would be really neat if we could get an online charette or critique going at any rate.

The…[Read more]

tanya, I feel bereft of ideas on this topic, and it is bothering me…I have been trying to think about it for 24 hours..what would work? A green design dream blog, a photomontage of twitter photos with landscape criticism – like/ don’t like…a mass charette on the design of – what?
how about a mass charette on the landscape implications of a…[Read more]

Chad, if you see me mugging people for work in front of a box store, just put a bullet between my eyes. Things are not that bad. It has actually been status quo for the three and a half years that I have been with this current firm. I should be thankful for that under this economy, but I’m looking to do better despite the economy.

Thanks Tanya.…[Read more]

The point is simple. When we are ill and can not decide what medications to take, we visit a doctor who is board certified. We trust board, b/c they control standard of the medical practitioners. Simply they control all including nurse, medical assistants etc. They don’t talk such that nurses are better doctors and so forth b/c they know their b…[Read more]

You might not want to have your profile picture be of you blowing smoke (weed?)… employers look at social networks… just a thought…

Brad:

I attended one of your two day workshops in SF a few years ago, and like everything else that one learns in intensive settings like that, either use it or lose. I have lost most of (perhaps even the CD from the workshop ….can you send me another ?)

In answer to your questions:

I would love to hear your thoughts on the following…[Read more]

yes, though not full time

Blake:

Thank you very much for this link. There is super-tonnage info there. Just what I was looking for.

Landplnr2001

1.Architects that I know and like – specifically for projects that don’t have the budget for a full LA firm, but need site design and planting help – so trying to find a niche there that takes advantage of my low overhead (single-person office).
2. biologists and ecologists with the national park service, national forest service and Nature…[Read more]

This discussion thread will wrap-up at the end of this week. It appears that there are two new ones that have just been started and probably will weave in well to what the summary of what everyone’s commentary in this forum has been so far. These new introductions also might provide a proactive (yeah, I know hard to keep that mindset these days)…[Read more]

Fantastic suggestions, all! Clearly I won’t be able to see everything, but you’re giving me a great start. If anything else comes to mind please keep adding to the list…