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No. I am working as a planner.

Honestly, I’m not angry or frustrated with anyone. Personally I think the recession is a great excuse to access our most creative thinking and do a lot of long overdue self reflection and reflection about our profession. The only thing I have seen in LA Mag that relates in any way to the conversations that the rest of us are having is the letter…[Read more]

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Hi, Brett. That project we collaborated on in Sparks dried up fast, as you probably know. I admit to shock hearing how your group was dismantled. For you, and all those struggling now, please know I know this will sound trite, but…I was bankrupt 11 years ago…it will get better. Believe me, it will. Like I did, you may have to take on…[Read more]

No – Feb 19, 2009 was day 1; doing some consulting here and there but nothing full-time.

I am hoping I could get your permission to write a post about your work on my site.. would that be okay with you?

http://www.cargillsafelane.com/how_it_works/chemical-residual-effect.shtm

This could give some information about the chemical effects.

I had also read SafeLane protects bridges by preventing salt from leaching into the rebar on a bridge deck. Sweet!

I have let my ASLA membership lapse as of last Fall 2009 and frankly don’t see the need to renew right now.

There have been several discussions over the last 12 months on professional advocacy, ASLA, and CLARB. Many of those discussions have concluded with the notion that ASLA seems interested more in selling magazine subscriptions for a…[Read more]

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Starting at the end of February 09 my ex-company here in Dallas started to dismantel their Urban Design group company wide. This included jobs in LA, DC, Chicago, Madrid, London, and Shanghi. Oh, they kept the planning groups in tact. Being one of the first two to have our positions eliminated I watched as the rest of my former team were slowly…[Read more]

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End of January was my 1 year anniversary of unemployment..
I am considering changing professions it looks so bad out therer for us LA’s. I am in the Northeast states.

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On a related note: Does the ASLA seem woefully out of touch in recession-related discussions to anyone else?
I haven’t seen much at all in LA Mag. and the ASLA conferences are still just as expensive. Are you all members? Do you pay your own membership fees? Can you afford the ASLA conferences? 20-50% unemployment? Why isn’t this a front-page…[Read more]

Erin:

Thanks for the tidbit about the high interest in your firm’s internship offerings at this time, which comes as no surprise.
Can you elaborate a bit more such as:

* What part of the country your firm is located ?
* What the current economic picture is as it affects the design professions.
* Any other anecdotal or tangential observations…[Read more]

Never used it but having lived in the north for most of my life, it looks like a GREAT idea. I wonder if there is any chemical leaching or significant runoff of chemicals….?

I don’t know if we can still be considered ‘front range’ but just a little further up north – Black Hills SD / WY….laid off from a black hills firm October 2008 and started my own company summer 2009. The firm I was laid off from is really really busy, but not hiring anyone new. Most of their work is city/state/federal. I think they are waiting…[Read more]

thanks for your help guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!