https://land8.com/members/melindaw-polites/activity/ Activity feed for Melinda W. Polites. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:38:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5613c078bb04804c84c976db186a435f https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-to-call-yourself-or-i-like-poking-sleeping-bears-with-sticks/page/2/#post-162656 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:34:38 +0000 that does not mean they don’t exist

]]> 0 20848ba02b27aa5d4e9d00f7c01f9689 https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-to-call-yourself-or-i-like-poking-sleeping-bears-with-sticks/page/2/#post-162657 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:33:47 +0000 yes I am for 28 yrs.

]]> 0 2c546f13a86aa2a422df582232dc3ed1 https://land8.com/forums/topic/what-to-call-yourself-or-i-like-poking-sleeping-bears-with-sticks/page/2/#post-162660 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:59:23 +0000 secure the profession from what, exactly?  Rogue unregistered Landscape Architects?
 
If you have achieved a BLA you are already leagues above a Landscape Designer, who quite often got lucky with his lawn service business and now calls himself a Landscape Designer.  The same being true for an Interior Designer versus the Interior Decorator.  It…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d130d920d8c96ff7cbd8eae1b49cb3c https://land8.com/forums/topic/time-to-panic-lam-march-2011-leaping-into-what/#post-164428 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:42:04 +0000 I definitely agree regarding LEED and the video is a bit extreme unless you’ve ever worked in a corporate Architectural office.  Having discovered net flix this summer using my son’s xbox I had to wonder why they would be mailing movies at all and then I heard them say they were phasing out ‘by mail’ service on NPR after I read about it in the paper.

]]> 0 99b31ef5d401152fcc7b4f5d5e7b2830 https://land8.com/forums/topic/heated-sidewalks-and-street-trees/#post-164658 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:47:19 +0000 When you mess with Mother Nature you always lose.  Heated sidewalks???? really?  Will be interested to see how it all works out.

]]> 0 d8f6615dd28ded98c9c03b30ff9bf0ed https://land8.com/forums/topic/time-to-panic-lam-march-2011-leaping-into-what/page/2/#post-164439 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:38:33 +0000 I copied this to another post because it is sadly accurate.  http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7429337/
 

]]> 0 e3c3b7000d24b163559749bd8ce91e82 http://land8.com/forums/topic/to-beard-or-not-to-beard-that-is-the-question/page/2/#post-164390 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:23:04 +0000 Shave it for the interview.  Beard it after you become well liked:)  considering it is not multiple tatoos or piercings they might feel lucky.

]]> 0 7b5a4b9fa3176f5ac2d92475b73c5e8a https://land8.com/forums/topic/time-to-panic-lam-march-2011-leaping-into-what/page/2/#post-164440 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:20:39 +0000 Have been in this profession for 30 yrs.  It has never been lucrative.  Only when everyone is rolling high do LAs seem to fair well, in the broad sense.  In hindsight I wish I had endured one more year of college and gotten that Masters in Urban Planning – seems to be more opportunities there.  I started out in the recession of the early 80’s and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ac42dbf910ae3f923af70be305b8620 https://land8.com/forums/topic/is-there-a-market-for-the-work-ive-been-doing/#post-164475 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:30:01 +0000 Thanks, really.  It is very time intensive – not too mention what it has done to my hands- because I cut and drill and grout everything myself but the more I do, the smarter I get. There is a lot of passion in it.  My intent has been to create a catalog of work that would eventually be reproduced by others once I could get enough interest.  So wh…[Read more]

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