[Tim Marten]

After a few weeks of pacing my hallway bemoaning my unavoidable graduation, wondering what the potential thermal value of my trio of diplomas is and watching way way to much Bloomberg News I can agree with both you pessimists out there and the more optimistic folks as well. this great deprivation ends when the bucks start stopping in my wallet verses being figments of my imagination. The real question is what shouldn’t we do and what are we going to bring back to this field when (tentatively used) we find our feet again? I

To be honestly and frank with everyone, the quciker we all get moving again in any direction the sooner we all can send out a resume or proposals and get the response we stay up late dreaming about. When in hell keep on walking before the devil knows your there.

[Tim Marten]

It’s funny how often I get this same question from students. They see and study big landscape driven projects and wonder why there summer internships projects all began and end with the engineers or architects final base plane. Ultimately this year I have given the same response, only you can prevent being on the bottom of the pile. Andrew as in this cases has hit the nail on the head but I still say if we want more then we need to grow up and prove we can sit at the adults drafting table.

[Tim Marten]

I got my Permaculture certification in 08 and your right in saying it has a lot of overlap with being and thinking like an LA or and ecological designer. I Know one thing about my Permaculture background now it that it starts a conversation and a conversation is an opportunity. I was in a three day intensive design charette on a JJR and before the end of it i had both the 2 JJR LA’s on the team on board and grasping what it was and how to apply it to LA.

[Tim Marten]

I admit to being just nerd enough to diagram articles when reading for a class, but I’m not sure if I can admit to doing just about what you laid out. I would need to add to your list what I wanted to gain or learn from X firm or the process and approach used in marketing myself for a job.

[Tim Marten]

Use hyperlinks to slides with in your power point. I hide my hyperlinks in images or along the bottom and always have a page of them at the end so I can 1 click my way back to a slide or section. My midterm thesis presentation was a hurdle also, i had to present a 169 tab excel file that was my modeling and analysis, I dont think the department was ready for that one. Good Luck it’s always to little or to much space…

[Tim Marten]

Yes….. But having a grasp on Permaculture helps when understanding where jacke is coming from and going to

[Tim Marten]

I am struggeling with this too, my recent leads and attempts have been in five categories
1- Environmental Restoration/Mitigation: cleaning up contaminated sites, leaking tanks ect.
2- Energy Analyst:
3- Teaching Environmental Sci: Community College Level
4- Basic construction labor: if you built it you can improve on it
4- Box car riding hobo (okay so its always been my real plan but, the folks didn’t like that one to much)

[Tim Marten]

When you start at the bottom you have no where to go but up.
12 years ago i was pushing lawns, shelping stone, slining dirt and being told to replant that bush for the 4th time that day, but i have stuck with it and followed opportunities and paths as they came up. I may still be looking for work despite a BLA, MLA and MUP, and LEED AP but I’m trying to find what are the steps in between here and where i want to be and if that means pushing lawns, shelping stone, slining dirt and being told to replant that bush for the 4th time that day again then well i came from beans i can go back to beans.

[Tim Marten]

That is a strong proposition but if we step back and look at the perspective and context, many of these acts were fought tooth and nail in some states by architects and engineers. I think the political stamina and lobbying that it would take to sustain a campaign to strengthen practice acts or upgrade title acts would and could benefit us all in the long run isn’t as easy as we would first judge.

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