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Craig:
Maybe in another paralell universe, we will share a brew together someday, We seem
to think alike and I love your humor.

Jason:

Thank you for your excellent “on the ground” and more recent account of what HR people are really looking for and what matters in the first screening. We both know it is exceptionally rough out there, and getting through the first few minutes of initial screening, will determine if one even makes it into the “A” pile and will hear, in an…[Read more]

Roland: 
 
The answer could easily be yes or no to all your questions. Take a chill pill for a moment. It also could be (And this is commonplace) that the firm was “fishing” to see who was out there and may be on the brink of having new work come in (or older-shelved projects come back to life) and want to have a qualified pool of pre-screened c…[Read more]

Thank you Henry, I think this could be very helpful to many here. But takes some real effort, like having to read it first.

Leslie:

I appreciate your commentary here. I only posted this job advertisment as a real-world testimony as to where things are in slow slog to recover from the Great Desperation. This ad reflects where things are at with our segment of the design professions, and both of us know that is not better or greatly improved for any of the others. I…[Read more]

nrschmid: Let’s try this one more time. You ripped off my username here. Change yours to some more unique, unusual or aspirational like maybe: landscapearchitectwannabe.
And better yet post the link to your flash portfolio (if you really have one so we can see whatcha’ got ?
And better than that, you have far more compadres on Cyburbia, so float…[Read more]

Andrew:
 
Thanks for the counterpoint, it was, as you usually do, very well expressed. Your points are well taken and the perspective you offer is certainly a better one than mine. When I first saw this ad, I was just appalled by how bad things have  become and continue to appear to be in the employment frontier, not only for our profession, but a…[Read more]

Chances are you are also known as nrshcmid or some other psuedonym like that and tend to hangout in Cyburbian land. Change your username here so it is not confused with mine. No copyright declaration, but come up with your own, and here is a fresh idea, inject some humor or irony into whatever you use as your moniker.

Roland:
 
I am not commenting here on your forum posting, I will read that later. I am giving you an early tipoff to a job prospect that seems to be right where you are right now, as in a graduate pre-landscape architect designer.
This is an international consulting firm with a major presence in both the Middle East and China. They are very…[Read more]

MauiBob:
 
A shocking self-admission.  I like to argue about anything and everything. I will give you props for what the rest of us already know and come to expect whenever you show up here. I would just ask you add  this  “almost reliably incoherent when I do and generally without much factual basis”, That would then be a complete and spot on se…[Read more]

Jason:
 
I have no way of knowing this, but I think we both follow the same financial journalist sources, or close enough for me to concur with your salient point here. I think by now, and others who are frequenters to this website, that I am on the other side of the world and the financial and economic perspective from here is worth comparing.…[Read more]

Roland:

Compete for this.

http://archinect.com/jobs/entry/53228000/community-designer

Could be a real good experience for you, except you will have to replace Chinese language lessons with
Spanish. A much easier language to learn, trust me on that.

The new anti-austerity leader of France has good intentions, but so did Obama and he had about a six month “honeymoon” and Democratic majority in Congress at the time. Hence the passage of the stimulus and ultimately prevailing over the hysterical histrionics of the healthcare debate. After 2010, that whole success deck was reshuffled. Don’t…[Read more]

Jason: I will rely on you to be our correspondent on the ground regarding the AEC industry and the AIA billing index. There is ample and anecdotal evidence (recent and not so recent) articles that many of those people who have exited the construction trades are among the thousands who have made the economic exodus to North Dakota and the rest of…[Read more]

Jason:

Wow ! I just read the review of that book from the link you provided. Seems like an incredible bargain for what it appears to contain. Thank you very much for that recommendation. Since this is about books, I can tell  you about my experience with landscape architecture and urban planning books in China. The books, typically cover a rea…[Read more]

Hello Leslie B:

First up, I would defer to Jason R  and Roland G.. as your counselors in this matter. I am not volunteering them  here. But, both do  have real world and recent  experience in the graduate school experience and have posted well-writtten and expressed pieces about what each went through. Your currrent experience and theirs might…[Read more]

Roland: If it is any more help to you, I was able to find a torrent site and download the complete Rosetta Stone modules for both Spanish and Chinese. I can burn them to a CD and send it to you. Might take a couple of weeks to get to you. You can email me your mailing address here on Land8Lounge if you would like to get a copy.
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My apologies first, I thought the top posting here was yours, then I looked again and it was reigning master of rapier wit here, Dr. McDonald.  I thought for certain it was you Bob. Here is what I first put down.
I read your posting and had to read it twice to make sure that it was the same MauiBob. This sposting of yours might, just might have…[Read more]

Roland:

I think we have communicated here enough for you to know that I am in China. Two things have changed in the last couple of years since my first and now second tour of duty. The first is that most employment posting for landscape architects specify either that you have to speak Mandarin or that it is highly desired. Despite my appealing…[Read more]

Jason:
 
I just read the NYT article that summed up the passage of the transportation bill. Looks like roadside (whatever kind of road) beautification and more bike lanes and pedestrian pathways lost out to the automobile, again. I read your reply and am not sure how to really interpret it. Do you mean that “fixing failing bridges and other…[Read more]