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Write about how you have the skills to do well in construction. Reflect on what you have learned from your different life experiences and how they relate to working in the industry for example, your time at university, part-time jobs, extracurricular activities such as volunteering and involvement in student societies, how you spent a year out, any travel.
See below for some of the most popular skills required by construction employers. For a formal placement scheme, employers might ask for a CV and covering letter or for you to complete an online application form. Firms that offer these schemes will not welcome speculative applications for work-shadowing — reserve this tactic for small and local companies. Your letter should clearly state what you want and why, the skills and abilities you could contribute, and when you would be available. Your university careers service or departmental work placement tutor will probably be willing to check your work experience application before you send it.
Take advantage of this. Take up opportunities such as bar work, a summer job at the local supermarket, office temping, SU electioneering, volunteering, gap year travelling and so on and then sell it to recruiters in your applications for graduate schemes. To do this, consider what skills you have picked up. In a retail role, you will have developed teamwork and communication skills and learned how to deal tactfully with tricky customers — these are all talents that a construction employer will be looking for.
I was put in touch with the team in Abu Dhabi and I introduced myself and asked for a placement. I had the chance to tell him I was interested in engineering and he gave me his business card. I emailed him three years later when I was at university to tell him about my studies and to ask for careers advice. I was then invited to apply for an internship. After the placement, I was offered a job.
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Bloody hell 29 is nothing - make a change now if you are unhappy.
I am 50 and still thinking about it - wish I had done it years ago. Its not the great career its cracked up to be. The time and money already invested is a sunk cost. You can't get it back. Start today with the attitude that you have a clean slate. Yeah, architecture sure isn't the same as what they show in the brochure..
I've been in it for 22 years. First thing you have to do is realize that all the romance, glamour and fun designy stuff is largely a thing of the past. If you are passionate, this industry will offer frustration. Come to terms with realistic expectations and find and cultivate your passion for architecture in other ways, away from the office.
You obviously never read any books on philosophy. Many people never find happiness. Some don't find it until they are 40, 50 or Look at Frank Lloyd Wright, completely hated by most of society, but the greatest architect who ever lived. Your generation has been taught little more than to drink Starbucks coffee and worship money.
This is the result. Weak people who are not willing to suffer. If World War 2 started tomorrow we'd all be dead or speaking German in 5 years. Buck up or get out. I had to accept the profession is full of assholes over 20 years ago. Remember, suffering builds character, and hopefully a sense of humor. So because some people never find happiness it's okay to be unhappy? What a load of bs, if you're unhappy try to do something about it. Suffering builds character pfff Life's too short to be around assholes all the time if you don't want to be or if you aren't one of the assholes yourself.
Keep telling yourself that your suffering is worth it If the generation who fought the Nazis knew that it would only lead to more suffering and that suffering is supposed to be something to strive for and not happiness, you think they would have gone and made those sacrifices? They made the sacrifices so we could be free and happy, you're kind of tarnishing their efforts by accepting the assholes.
They didn't accept the assholes, they fought them and beat them! I'd welcome my german overlords, maybe my zinc panels in the US would finally be installed correctly. I guess what I was getting at is that everyone has a different "constitution". For example, would any of us really survive if we lived in Puerto Rico right now after Hurricane Maria? Now might be a good time to appreciate how good we have it.
I knew I wanted to be a designer originally architect as a kid. I chose my major as urban planning in undergrad a compromise between my family and me and gained three year work experience working as urban designer, but I felt that I did not get to design anything. In , I got an email from a dream design firm which admitted me as an intern for that summer, I was very excited about my new job and had high expectations. This three-month internship completely changed my life.
I started to feel that I had no motivation to go to work - the work is repetitive not even mention the low pay and long work hours.
I just forced myself to go there. Also, none of the senior designers - neither architects nor landscape architects - are happy with their jobs. I had then squeezed every minute I can to learn everything about designers to change their career paths and I now work as a data scientist completely changed my career I know! I love my job due to its flexibility and there are lots of interesting projects to work on as well as opportunities for growth. During my career change, I learned a lot about different fields and changing a career in general, so I wonder if anyone is seriously considering a career change?
You are not alone! It sounds as if your resilience and hence self-belief is down also.
Has anything changed in the last few months since you wrote this post? Of course it's not to late to change your career. It's important to get back to your values - what makes you happy? Let me know if you need any help - get in touch for a chat if you like I'm an executive coach and I work solely with architects and designers. Hi Karen, how can I contact you?
I feel stuck in getting job opportunities in UK as I have an Indian experience in architecture.. Definitely know how you feel. I do feel miserable in the career, even though I work for a top firm and have a decent salary within the field. I have applied to jobs in other fields and it has been very challenging to find one that employers feel will translate well.
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Before you start spending the time and money on the MBA, get it firmly fixed in your mind how it will specifically advance your goal, and whether you really need it. Otherwise, you run the risk of just getting a useless piece of paper. At your age, it is possible to change careers, but you shouldn't kid yourself that it will be easy.
Time is not your friend. Age discrimination is there. Schools will always make it sound like their curriculum is the magic carpet to a great new life, but remember, they want your money. You have to kick the tires before buying. Also, you sound a little up in the air about what path you want to take, other than just any path out of architecture. You sound eerily like me when I was in my thirties. Believe me, I know how you feel. Just be sure to use your age and maturity to your advantage in assessing your options. Don't let those battle scars go to waste. I am a architecture bachelors student now.
I don't want to continue with this degree anymore. Most of my classmates are here out of passion but me, I'm here just to keep the family name. Honestly I hadn't had much clue on architecture itself, just checked some books and magazines during college application and they made it look so interesting. So I happily applied for the bachelors degree in architecture. But now after two years of study I'm really stressed and depressed. So depressed that it's showing on my face. I don't have time to eat or time to sleep. I am thinking of switching to an engineering degree.
But I don't want the two years I've spent here to go to waste. It will be a huge help. Non major courses and structure classes if you took them are transferable to architectural engineering major. But two years is not that long if you consider your career life span to be decades long.
So don't let that two years hold you back or think of it as wasted. I felt the way you did when I was two years in. If you think two years is a waste try It only gets worse and harder when those people with passion are willing to take jobs for nothing or willing to work every weekend for the cause. So in response to the above comment.
I had no idea what I was missing out on in terms of work place environment. That alone makes working SO much better. Yes, trying to maintain "passion" in a profession you hate is like staying in an abusive relationship.
It's a lot easier to love a job when you aren't seeing a chump in the mirror every morning. Now ditch the prison stripes before the sheriff catches up and drags you back to your cell. Tech is like football - too many blows to the head, and you're done. What you say is partially true.