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plenty of jobs in CE Arch surveying?  where do you live?  I know more folks looking for work in those fields than LAs on the east coast (note that there are a lot more CivEs and Archs out there, so the job listing/prospective may be worse).

Don’t worry, ASLA will come to your rescue!
Just like they always have…..

These are the kind of salaries you get in so-called  ‘right-to-work’ states, altho Houston is an extreme example.. ..
 

I would add to Andrew’s–don’t get the micro and the macro confused.  If you made a list of actions to take  today (or in the next few weeks) to find work, you will find that “tackling the state of licensure between LA’s and Architects” will be way down on the priority list.   
I found licensure to be important when working for a firm without one…[Read more]

Chill out dude. I was responding to the previous comment that LA is dead. It’s not, firms are still working, and there is still work to be done. Our industry just can’t hand out LA degrees like candy anymore or spit out cookie-cutter crap like in pre-recession times.

thank you sir…
so could you help me designing a program or design brief for the same minus the skiing……what all is required for an adventure sports resort…..as in built structures, open spaces…….and is it okay if we call it a ‘base camp site for adventure sports’…..since all d spots for hiking, rafting..etc..will be at different…[Read more]

“There will always be jobs for good LAs.”  I know dozens of good and great LA’s who have been out of work for so long they have lost nearly everything.  Do you even understand what is happening to this industry? Have you read any of the multitudes of topics on this site regarding the number of qualified LA’s out of work for years and months. I…[Read more]

Experiences in China vary. What you say about Beijing and Shanghai can be said about Los Angeles or NYC.

There will always be jobs for good LAs. We just need to adjust our ideas and skill set to stay relevant.

Ouch, yes, you should not work till you get your paycheck!
 
You do want to be careful there especially working at the smaller local Chinese firms. A word of advice, if they don’t offer to get you a work permit, then that should raise alarm bells and you should be very cautious. However, there are many international offices in China and large…[Read more]

Wow, Russell, much better and far rougher rant than my previous posting. I make no apologies for my survivalist instincts kicking in last year and coming to southwestern China. The mothership of the multi-disciplinary, highly architecture dominated firm I am on  temporary overseas, expat assignment is actually in Hong Kong, still part of the…[Read more]

I’m in your choir, preacher. Amen brother.

I don’t get it. Why do so many of us feel like we do not do work that is valued by others? If I’m not doing work that is valued by others, I’d be both unemployed and out of business … or I’d be darn sure to find what it is which is valued and find a way to do it. I would not and do not worry what  the model landscape architect is supposed to b…[Read more]

I was going to make a comment about it too. I had to look at my calendar to make sure it wasn’t already April 1st. Maui county is advertising for two positions as engineering drafters which pay more. If prospective students see this Houston job, they should be running away from it.

No barrel, Craig. The wide, open ocean is all the freedom a crab could ever need. Just jump in with eyes wide open!

Craig, he’s not out of the woods just yet! I wrote about a certain LA in Honolulu who was working in China back in 2010. In short, he was doing okay for 5 months until the firm just stopped paying him! But, they told him he would get a check soon; however, he never did receive one. To his fault, he kept working for additional two months and…[Read more]

I am also in agreement.  Instead of worrying about the legal turf wars, perhaps it may be more important for us to be the best at what we do (which engineers, architects etc. are not).  I never worried much about the turf.  I just concentrated on what an LA is uniquely good at–site planning being one of them.

I think your range seems mostly reasonable for an entry-level LA with a Master’s degree, at least for the jobs I’ve seen open around this area (Alberta, Canada). I’ve seen CAD Techs in Edmonton getting around 20K beginning sallary (IBI Group is hiring up there right now…), and beginning designers getting around 24K, but that’s with a large…[Read more]

 
Andrew:
 
I am in complete agreement and support the comments you are offering here in this discussion thread and the other current one. Some of the best and still valuable training I received was from working in civil engineering offices or multi-disciplinary ones throughout my career. I learned grading and drainage the hard and right way f…[Read more]

Hey, hope things have got better for you Thomas, I’m new to this too so not speaking from experience but generally I would say stick at it and gain some experience and then you will be in a good position and have more choice of where you can work. I hope you don’t mind but I am replying to your thread for some advice – does anybody know what is…[Read more]

Keith:
 
I won’t retract the “pity party for the paltry” statement, because there has been an awful lot of bitching and moaning on this topic for last two years plus. I should know, I contributed my fair share of it.
I too have, a now extended (distance) family to contribute to looking after. That is another major motivator for being where I…[Read more]