Jonathan Smith, RLA

Just be yourself…but no mustache!

You had ZERO responses?
 
 

I agree.  Get ant relevant experience.  Use and develop any skills you have or want to have.
 
I just applied for a job with a public policy consultant the other day.  It would be awesome!  And I could use my writing degree again…

I HATE looking for new computers on a budget…but I’ve only had good luck with Dell.

Look for a refurbished Dell.  Got mine for 1200.  Runs great.
 
Here’s the specs:

Vostro 3700 Laptop

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Processor: Intel Core i7-740QM Processor (6M cache, 1.73 GHz)

Certified Refurbished

8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability

Processor Label

Palmrest W/O Finger Print Reader

Software

Back-lit Ke…[Read more]

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Woh…not to be rude, Heather, but you’re WAY off!  Where did you go to school anyway?

…unless you had decoder goggles…

Oooo!  Or invisible ink!  Written backward so you have to stand in front of the bathroom mirror to read it!

Even in situations like ours, I’m eventually reminded of how great we actually have it.  I read a book recently called “In The Lap of The Gods” by Li Miao Lovett about the modernization in China – had a great passage “When there’s nothing left to hold you back, you can only move forward.”
And, in a more general context, a favorite passage from a…[Read more]

Before you involve an engineer, check to see if you are licensed to do the stormwater calcs., sizing detention and conveyance.  In Idaho we are licensed to preform these services and we were trained to perform these services at UI.  Don’t give fees to other professionals if you don’t have to!

I had to take section E three times before I passed.  So, you all are in good company.  I’d scratch the red line review and opt for Ray Freeman’s classes.  I’m not sure how much you are able to learn from red lines anyway.  Though I still failed C twice and E three times after I took his classes, he provides you with a methodology and a way to app…[Read more]

I think I’d just expand my design/build and head for the Cour ‘de Alene area or Seattle.  To be honest, sometimes I love design/build, sometimes I hate it.  But it’s the right way to go financially and ensures, as some of you have already pointed out, that the landscapes you design are built properly. 
 
I also like your idea, TJ. I took a par…[Read more]

Thanks, Mark.  I get it now.

Don’t put yourself out.

Do you have an image you could share?

I’m looking for an alternative to the timber risers.  Even a different way of finishing them.  They work great structurally and they’re relatively inexpensive…but they’re green with the linear markings from being treated.
 
I’m not really hot on the keystone step look.  I do like the ashlar steps on your site, Chuck.  But…spendy!  I have to be…[Read more]

I don’t know…I think 40 is low for design sevices no matter where you practice or how new you are.  Unless you’re working a day job, you have an infinite number of clients or you’re doing your own installs, it’ll be hard to make a living.  Plus, if you charge a low rate, that’s what people will come to expect…

oops. signed in as my husband…University of Idaho. I know it is a little different now, I am not sure if it is as strenuous.

Second that!  Sorry, Bianca.  Most LA’s show much more courtesy and tact.  Like Mom said, “If you don’t have something nice to say…keep your trap shut!”