Comments on: Low-paid architect jobs: An offer you can refuse… to offer

By: Architecture Week: Dirty, Sexy Money | My Property Mentor Blog

Architecture Week: Dirty, Sexy Money | My Property Mentor Blog — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:20:17 +0000

[...] I don’t think this is just an effect of the recession, I think it’s an issue of culture. I’ve discussed it in more detail here:- it’s about money- stupid! [...]

By: Sticking Plaster – paying RIBA graduates the minimum wage — Just Practising

Sticking Plaster – paying RIBA graduates the minimum wage — Just Practising — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:58:46 +0000

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By: Felicity Waters

Felicity Waters — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:00:53 +0000

its the same in australia and its the same in the landcape arch profession – I am sure its down to the hours spent on presentation dwgs – at least it was when I was working -

By: su

su — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:20:24 +0000

Thats a good idea Daniel, though its not rocket science, just good business sense.

The guest bloggers on here are making a contribution, like Sean Sidney today, but I’d like to fill out some of the gaps too.

By: Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:49:55 +0000

The company I work have never advertised. The business has bee built over the years by word of mouth. The only reason they decided to have a website was simply because they thought they needed it just to say that they had got one. Even then there hasn’t been any coherent action to update it with new projects generating additional content. After we had not long completed a church into a beautiful home, I considered this to be an excellent opportunity to follow it up with a PR exercise. Would anybody having read this comment agree with that objective and any further suggestions that would help promote our company would be appreciated.

By: Daniel Tenner

Daniel Tenner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:21:35 +0000

Hi Su,

A thought – following your argument the thing that’s missing for the industry to change is twofold:

1) Architects must believe that it is possible for things to change

2) They need to know how to make them change, by improving the business-savviness of their practices

It sounds like your own practice runs efficiently. Perhaps it would be worth posting a series of articles explaining what your practice does differently from those which find themselves against the wall. That might help many budding architects to avoid making these mistakes and perpetuating the cycle of low-pay-long-hours…

Daniel

By: Roland Millward

Roland Millward — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:39:15 +0000

It’s interesting that the advert to the left of this one is for a Dog Walker at £8 per hour. Says it all! Why bother with University, long hours of study, mounting student debt and then get offered minimum wage when all you do is be able to walk and pick up dog poo!