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Face It. Right now, just about everyone is scared out of their mind about losing their job, and that’s if they haven’t lost their job already. It’s easy to take the defeatist attitude and tell yourself that if [...]

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Now there are tasks that you cannot avoid doing at a practice that will cause you to hate your job. And then there are tasks that you can pleasantly avoid in order to make your life a lot easier. One of these tasks that you should try to avoid at all costs is 3D rendering.
It [...]

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Last week, I went over some of the interview questions that you should be ready for when searching for a job. As a part of your interview, you should also be pro-active and ask questions that will help you gauge whether or not the position and environment is suited for you. 
Here are 5 Questions to ask in order to gain [...]

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Whether you are looking for your first job out of school, switching careers, or just seeking out more career advancement, you will inevitably need to sit down face to face with a potential employer. Because this is unavoidable, you will need to hone your interviewing skills. Here are ten questions that you will most [...]

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Carole, a loyal reader, wrote me an e-mail about an issue that many of us have experience in.
“As a young interior designer, I appreciate any advice I can get. In this
particular case, I have been given a black market copy of CAD by my cousin an
architect out of San Francisco…. My question is how hard is [...]

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No matter how you slice it, getting laid off is one of the most psychologically damaging things that anyone can go through in their career. However, this is sometimes unavoidable and you need to prepare yourself in the event that this should happen to you.
The Set-up
I was working at a large firm a few years [...]

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Surprisingly, “we,” being architects, are very happy with our jobs considering how others view their profession.
Take a look at this Time.com Survey where 53.5% of Architects say they are very happy with their jobs, putting them near the top of the list.
The “happiest” profession is…Clergy at 67.2%. I don’t know if its fair to ask them [...]

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Recently we had to move our desks around in my office in order to retint our windows. My firm has been at its current location for 15 years and the furniture arrangement has never changed. So you can imagine that prying the desks from their encrusted locations on the rug revealed a cross section of [...]

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