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I am responding to this post because I worked for a principal for a few years who used similar tactics. The “why is this important, are you looking?” question is an intimidation technique designed to squelch your initiative to look elsewhere. Don’t fall for it.
Since you are not (hopefully) an indentured servant, and are (probably) not a slave, o…[Read more]

LEED has several flaws, and many voices claim that standard is not going for enough, but 
 When i read this : “legislative siege with lobbyists from the timber, plastics and chemical industries crying out, “monopoly!”
then : [these] “various industries that could otherwise aid in the sustainable construction of environmentally-sensitive building…[Read more]

If that constraint is not expressly mentioned in your contract, you are free to do just as you wish. Be honest : say what you did, or contributed to do. People who hire are interested into knowing what you can do.

A reverse extreme example : I have designed a garden for a Chancery once, a couple of years after sept11, and had to sign a very…[Read more]

Henry, I was responding to Boilerplater’s comment.
Did you not read the condescending comment he/she made?
 

another cheap shot at Southerners…
Try this as a progressive idea:
Mississippi was the first state in the USA to establish a State supported College for Women.
Would that be considered a progressive idea?
 

Most state licensure laws that I’ve read…ok, only three…have language about using work you did while with your employer for a portfolio.  That is, it is a condition of maintaining licensure.  You have to allow employees to use work in that way.
 
On guy I worked for, apparently he felt bad about having to lay me off, and so he printed out a bu…[Read more]

Yes, because ALL the great progressive ideas that move us forward come out of those states.  Why, just look at how well they are doing with education!
 
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.  So much of the news coming out of those states seems to be of this variety.

interesting… was looking at it!
many thanks for your feedback robert.   
lp. 

myself + outside source… project + inspirational images database.
many thanks for your feedback chris. 
lp.

I assumed that you had staff. Good info none the less.
 
Hopefully, someone who does or did have staff in their own firm will chime in.

Bob,

You are a good person to ask this question of. How would you react to a current employee showing work from your office while trying to get a job with another firm?

By the way, you are showing a lot of integrity by asking this question and having reservations about using material that you worked on without getting approval. Hopefully, your prospective employer will see this because it is a virtue that is very hard to detect and far more rare than it should be. You can’t teach integrity.
 
 

I f you happen to know this guy, please forward him my best regards. Not just the regular signature type best regards, but something that comes from deep within. This book is just colossal.

Cheers

Thanks for the advice, especially regarding my wording. Everyone’s been extremely helpful.
I think the safest thing would be to strip the examples of as much detail as possible (who’s going to want to read my notes of concrete slump testing during an interview anyway?) in the interest of protecting my current employers IP. 
A lot of our work is…[Read more]

Laurent,
I use Aperture, which is the profession version of iPhoto. The nice thing about Aperture is that you can get plugins for all sorts of things from lens correction to flckr.

Regina,
I have developed more than one set of CAD standards and the firms that I have worked for are as varied from Engineering firms to Land Planning and Landscape Architecture. In each of these circumstances my clients have asked that the basis of design is the National CAD standard.
The other guidance that you have received here is very good as…[Read more]

Since you haven’t gotten any other responses yet, maybe Adobe Lightroom?  Or Bridge if you’re already using the Creative Suite.  Are these images you’re shooting yourself or coming from outside sources?

Your current employer sounds sketchy to me.  My response to why it’s important would be that as a professional in this field it’s important to maintain a record of my work, period.  It doesn’t matter if I’m looking right now or not, maintaining a portfolio simply comes with the territory.  A lot/most people tend to do it only in job search mod…[Read more]

The first thing that came to mind was a series of terraced rice paddies (substitute sedges and rushes). If this were somehow visually accessible, it might be worthwile to recreate that aesthetic. Here’s a pretty entertaining animation: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/rice-paddy.html

Thank you!  I will check them out as well.