Andrew Garulay, RLA

I’m trying to figure out if it is a vocal minority that is being/has been exploited, or what the story is.
 
I have seen lots of posts from people looking to vounteer for internships and wonder if some of it is people begging firms that don’t need help to hire them under self imposed conditions. I accepted 6 ten hour days when I needed $x to su…[Read more]

The Mac program that you probably heard about was likely Vectorworks.

Please mention if you are/were paid salary or hourly with overtime compensation, if you worked more than 40.

Autocad has another program called Impressions. I know that it was a freebie in 2009 if you had a subscription for Acad updates. It did rendering and other stylized things like pencil or different pen type looks to your Acad drawing. They had a free limited amount of time demo that you could download from Autodesk. I would guess that they still…[Read more]

Wow! Do I live a sheltered life. I thought the sweat shops were mostly professor lore.
 
I have not worked for a large landscape architecture firm, just a couple of design/build (build with staff, not subs) and small local engineering firms (one owned by a PLS with a Harvard GSD MLA who felt no need to get an LA stamp). That one told me, “if we…[Read more]

@ Theodore
No adversarial attitude to employers here. I’m just curious as to how much of the long hours is folklore and how much is actually practiced.
 
I will admit that I did not like those particular employers from the moment that I met them, but they were the only people who I worked for in the last twenty years whom I did not like. However,…[Read more]

I would get licensed in another state just to have it done. I finished my license for Idaho after I moved to Massachusetts and took the exam in Maine. I got reciprocity in Massachusetts after I completed requirements for work experience. Having the license in another state helped me get the job that got me the added work experience that I needed.…[Read more]

Thanks for bringing the subject back, Doug!

Adapting to conditions is what all business does all of the time. The difference right now is that government has been hugely influencing what is going on and no one knows what to adapt to. They are al over the place and generally targeting their beneficiaries. Every time something is steared in one direction, it is steared away from where it was…[Read more]

Bad news:
Home sales about even from 2009 to 2010. Whether or not you work or want to work in the residential sector, it is a large pert of the profession that usually absorbs a large percentage of employed LAs that may or may not be competing for jobs in the sectors that you may want to work in. Worse yet is that when home sales are down, real…[Read more]

 … you find yourself in this economy getting ….
….just like…
 
… now if you could only get paid and have a steady stream of clients there might be something to that.

Jokes?
 
Google “job outlook, landscape architect” and you’ll get a list of them.

TARP money was for financial institutions. The money some are refering to is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
 
The big question is whether the government borrowing money to recirculate results in more jobs than it smothers by the added deficit. It is forgotten that the government takes that money out of the economy to put it into the e…[Read more]

The stock market and unemployment statistics are not the numbers to watch to understand how landscape architecture is going to fair. Real estate sales, building permits, and growth in real estate equity are the only numbers that directly matter for the overall health of landscape architecture.
 
Outlook for 2011 is not positive.

… how the public sector adjusts to a down economy. It is based on the same assumption raising taxes is. That is that they’ll get more out of the same amount of students. The unaccounted factor is that they may not attract as many students.
 
I think they’ll learn that it won’t work that way, especially in a somewhat remote setting. My e…[Read more]

 … might want to get that Master’s in teaching!

Now who is going to do the research to see which MLA programs are designed to strengthen job security for university professors? Are there departments dropping BLA accreditation in order to force continuation in Master’s programs? Watch for it. I know it is coming (…. and I use the word “know”  rather than “think”)
 
Has anyone seen or heard of this?

I can’t argue with any of that, but I personally found that I was willing to go the Acad Lt route and drop the extra cash not to deal with the differences. I also had no need of the full Autocad  (or full Bricscad), so it made sense to me to bite the bullet when I did at the beginning of 2008. I demoed three or four Intellicad programs and each…[Read more]

It sounds like you did a lot of work. Your response makes a lot of sense both to be fair to the schools as well as it being a lot of work. The big benefit of your article is that it makes more people aware of something that they can easily research once they know.You don’t know what you don’t know, as they say. This makes more people know…[Read more]

Great eye opener! Will you be posting your list of schools that go one way or the other?