landplanner

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]

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 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]

Have you looked into the Austin Planning firm  opportunity that is listed on Cyburbia ?  I have seen your posts there before so you probably are well aware of it.
 
I appreciate your viewpoint, but I far older than you, have limited options and this is my only opportunity at present. I have done little networking.

Your part of yourself is saying the same thing another part of myself is saying. I completely agree with the views of your other part also. As to your last question…. see my last response in this string. Your right about the imposition of Southern California residential architecture and master planned cloned communities there. There is a real…[Read more]

Thank you for your comments.  I will not be spending a whole lot of coin to get there and I will be paid fairly well. I am glad I am not dragged down by the leg-iron an underwater house represents to most that own one right now. They give you a four month trial run because the work pace is supposedly 2 to 3 times that of a US office (straight f…[Read more]

Thank you for your comment. Yes the other reasons are to see another part of the world I have never been to and to be exposed to a culture that I know little about. I also would get paid fairly well, compared to what I have been trying find here in the States.

Well there are a few major considerations here, mostly economic. My unemployment runs out this year.  There is one other western landscape architect, from the west coast, in their Singapore office. I will talk with him (hopefully in confidence) to get his take on your viewpoint.
 
thank you for the comment.

Nrschmid :
 
I replied to your comment. I would appreciate further ones by you.
 
Thank you.
 
Landplanner

I am a fellow landscape architect and planner like yourself who also would like to put my portfolio on Flash.
 
I have hours of tutorials (Lynda and VTC mostly)  to go through that should allow me to be self-propelled soon. Any guidance, tips, advice you can offer that you learned along the way (you have included a few already) would be most v…[Read more]

Ye. the first response to this chat session should be our first topic.

Please continue to state your employment status, outlook and general opinion about the state of the economy in your region of the country and the nation overall.

Please continue to respond and keep this string going. I promise a summary report by the end of November, 2010

I still think it will be some time (at least 1 to 2 years) before Revit becomes even an optional CAD program in most mid to large sized LA offices. If any office wants to integrate well and work in the same BIM environment most architecture firms are now (or on the brink of doing) the astute thing to do would be to start getting training in the…[Read more]

As usual, the notional intent of postings in any of these topics is subject to individual and subjective interpretation. Happens all the time. I offered the observation that these postings are mostly derived from Craigslist as a statement of fact. Sure this is a useful favor to all us here, and should be appreciated. From my humble standpoint, it…[Read more]

Unfortunately you bought the program. You could have obtained it here, at no cost, as in free.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2296079/47538225/

Might be a slightly older version but it is completely functional and the price is right.

I differ with you greatly about the quality of graphic renderings as compared to SketchUp.

Realtime…[Read more]

While this may seem like a useful service, it is nothing but a harvesting of job postings that appear mostly on Craiglist to begin with.
You will notice, most, if not all of these, are from the San Francisco Bay Area and just beyond.

Coincidence ?

I don’t think so.

Please continue to state your employment status, outlook and general opinion about the state of the economy in your region of the country and the nation overall.