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In reality, you won’t get low pay as long as your new career/job is still related to your background. But it may be a risk in many aspect if you completely jump into a new career.
It’s a risk because it’s not just what one person wants at this age. It’s also about family, personal goal/life, career achievement, salary, value, time, etc. Above all,…[Read more]

I’m not a big fan of the “internship” but I get it that the intention is to promote experience. The reality is that it creates opportunity for exploitation. One can exploit while patting himself on the back for “giving back” and “giving a hand up” to aspiring LA’s.
I don’t know the answer, but I am a big believer in being paid what I’m worth to…[Read more]

Sorry, I did not see the other replies!

These are skate deterrents. They could both be described as anti-skate studs. They prevent skateboarders from “grinding” on street furniture, making them less likely to congregate in public spaces. Widespread now in major UK cities. The y are fairly uncontroversial but are sometimes discussed in the same context as “hostile” architecture, which is…[Read more]

Hi there! Sorry I’ve not been able to get anyone to contact you directly. I do have some further advice, however- contact the UK Landscape Institute (the professional body representing landscape architects). They will give you advice more relevant to a UK resident.

I think it gets overlooked that it is not very time consuming for a principal designer to put together a conceptual plan and delegate it to staff. When that is the case, the principal first only needs production staff. A principal designer can begin a lot of different projects in a short amount of time. Each can stay on track with the right amount…[Read more]

You’re welcome! I actually just checked up on a former colleague who recently attained a senior landscape architecture position, six years after attaining their masters degree. I will ask around and see if any of my former classmates are prepared to chime in with their advice!

Hi Gia Sadhwani
Just thought I’d chime in as a fellow UK resident. I studied in Greenwich, London, on both BA and postgraduate courses. I considered myself a mature student when I started (I was 28), but there were a number of students older than, some in their early forties. They produced some of the best work, and yes, they did pull the…[Read more]

I pretty much agree with what everyone has said so far. I’ve been a big cheerleader for those interested in entering Landscape Architecture. It wouldn’t be impossible to be successful, but it will be very hard at 41. I don’t know how rigorous LA programs are in the UK, but I think most US programs are still pretty intense. I couldn’t imagine…[Read more]

My comments are pretty much based on some of the same reasoning Mark has. Like in any other business, an employer in the LA field hires in order to fill needs. Usually that is in production rather than in creative design. One lead designer can do an awful lot of projects through production staff making the need to hire or train “designers” ra…[Read more]

Perspective from the other side of the pond . . . I’m guessing you’re mid-40s which is certainly not too late to retrain. Mid-50s might be pushing it. I can’t speak to how it’s done in the UK, but in the U.S. there’s a tendency to hire younger workers, in part because they learn applications faster (a little bit of irony here because you alrea…[Read more]

Bob, I’m sorry you see and have now politicized a non-profit science organization formed by scholars, students, faculty and science professionals as “left-wing” and “liberal.” If it weren’t for scientists, we would still be using DDT.  Knowledge is power. 
Actually, some electric utility companies are offering customers the option to sell their e…[Read more]

Here’s an idea: how about instead of the government giving away $20,000 for citizens to buy more stupid crap as you seemed to think was a good idea, the gov could pay for the solar panels that you think are so hard to install.

Sorry Bob, the wall is never going to be built. The liberal crook Trump threw that out as red meat to the hate and fear…[Read more]

Regarding the new consideration to add solar panels to the (racist and waste of money and resources border wall) – 
http://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/trump-wall-solar-panels?_ga=2.162998460.1842880566.1497276218-1117700974.1497276218

From the guy who has to bring up Obama and Hillary constantly to defend Trump’s bad moves and decisions. Instead of talking about the grand accomplishments of the Great Negotiator teamed up with the republican houses…you’ve got bupkus. We get nothing but Donald wasting government time and money while he makes us all less secure. Just think about…[Read more]

You’ve said you were done with this thread before, yet you still come back to get more egg on your face. I thought you were done when you started deleting your previous questionable posts.

Of course it’s the powerless dems fault that Trump is getting nothing constructive done. It couldn’t possibly be that he spends his time doing things like…[Read more]

That’s just great more deflection and no response to Mexico paying for the stupid medieval wall.

Reminder:
Obama and Clinton are not POTUS. Trump is the president and he’s caused nothing but chaos since he took office. Nothing is getting done while the government is left babysitting the president.

The US and the Russian government have had an…[Read more]

Oh, I thought Mexico was going to pay for the stupid wall. I guess that was just more Tromp BS.