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and he has to pay his $60 union dues before he can even apply for a permit..Sorry,that’s the rules..

Mitigation requirements are that he must re-design a piece of suburban ground as moose habitat at a 3:1 ratio to the section of woods that he’ll range in. He shall not displace any employed people as they are rare species. Catch basins, leach pits, sewer plants, drainage swales, and all forms of stormwater management are also protected wetlands…[Read more]

Let us not forget that choosing a career is an investment in the future. Why would anyone take financial investment advice from a landscape architect?

LA’s lookin out for each other.  Amen to that!  And THX for the tips!

Chup, What is a living Gargoyle doing in cold Alaska? The creature lurks in the desert climate. Natural gas is a long term buy! A must on any financial portfolio. You and anyone 45 yrs or younger can’t afford to not invest. Social Security and Medicare will not be there in 30 yrs.

YES!! Thomas, now that’s what I’m talking about! Discuss real issues, the financial markets and not landscape architecture. The problem with 401k is lack of freedom to purchase individual stocks. They offer you a list of mostly horrible losers such as American Growth Fund. We’ve had this discussion before and you mentioned you had no money to…[Read more]

I’m not Mauibob, but here’s my $.02.
 
Rare-earths are good.  Google rockwood holdings.  Guy I know bought at the bottom of the stock trough, ~$6/share and told me to do the same.  He’s happy now.  They control most of the REMs outside of China. 
 
Forget natural gas – saturated.  Oil companies are good, but not the “blue chips” (BP, Shell,…[Read more]

Robert Redford? We will definitely be looking that up.
 
Good luck in Austin. 😉 Hire us after you become principal. I’m networking.

Got any hot stock tips…? I just got my IRA statement and there are some things I’d like to change… I’m gonna sell a few of the funds and invest in stocks of my choosing.
About 6 years ago I put together a list of companies related to the military industrial complex that I called “The Pure Evil Fund”. If you can’t beat’em, join’em. I didn’t…[Read more]

Yeah, my hair started abandoning ship when I was 18, so I’ve had plenty of time to become comfortable with my cranium. I can’t imagine having hair anymore. It would look ridiculous… This is how I’m supposed to be…It’s the guys who start loosing it in their 30’s who are really distraught about it. When you lose it later it makes you think…[Read more]

It sounds like you’ve already made up your mind, so what’s the point of this questionaire? Trying to find validation for the decision? Here’s a story. You are floating out there in the middle of the ocean and clinging to a tire tube for survival. A Chinese boat comes by and offers help to pick you up and take you to a temporary shelter. You…[Read more]

Those are very smart fields to pursue, because jobs in our profession, unless you go to other highly productive economies in other parts of the world right now that are generating  our kind of jobs (China 7-8% GDP this year, 10% last year, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong slightly less) you had damn well better look into other avenues.
 
I m…[Read more]

Hey bud,
 
No harm intended or meant, but due to the nature of your reply, I am now going to submit my killer resume and incredibly powerful portfolio to those guys. Based on their invitation to have me come out at to Austin (at their expense) I just might see you out that way when I am walking out of their office after a stellar interview and…[Read more]

Nope. No advanced degrees. Just two bachelors (one in natural resources and the other in LA) several focused certificate programs (green building and new urbanism, and now urban design and placemaking from Rutgers (underway) what else do you do when you have been laid off for an unbelievable period of time…?).
 
I have always wanted to visit…[Read more]

Have you looked into teaching opportunities? It sounds like you have some great life experience that you could share with students. I am not sure if you have a master’s or not…but we did have a visiting professor my senior year that was employed at EDAW out of San Francisco and spent two semesters up here in little Moscow, Idaho. It was nice to…[Read more]

I know your living in one of the only areas of the country that is producing jobs related to our dual professions, albeit at a very slow pace, but at least there are job opportunities.  As for where I live, there has not been a single job that I am aware of (advertised or not) (with one major exception and I applied for that one and got asked to…[Read more]

Actually, my network is pretty scattered and minimal. You seem to be far better at it than myself. I have kind of gone into hiding and hunkered down over the last year. Not healthy (on all levels). I think you will do just fine, as for me ? I am uncertain, but this is the best thing to come my way in months. Don’t get me wrong, for the modest…[Read more]

I lived out of a suitcase for years, first as seasonal worker and then in the military.  It can be an odd shift but it sounds like an arrangement you’ll be able to pull off.  Go for it.

I am leaving most everything here in storage. My grown daughter is moving into the house with a roommate.
For now, she gets my vehicle. I go over there with one very LARGE bag one smaller one, and my laptop. I am divorced and older than you with still all the hair on my head. I am resharpening and retooling my CAD and Adobe Suite skills in the…[Read more]

I’d approach it like a working vacation.  Do your four months and if it works out, great, if not then tack on a nice Southeast Asian vacation at the end.  I’ve spent a bit of time in Asia (SEA) for work, study, and play and if I didn’t have a family I’d jump at the opportunity to work over there.
 
I know of one firm that fits your very loose de…[Read more]