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Miserable Architects
Why I may give up my drafting board for a good pair of shears
According to the UK's City & Guilds' annually compiled "Happiness Index," architects come in dead last with a dismal 2% saying that they are extremely happy with their jobs (or giving a 10 out of 10 on the "happiness scale"). Hairdressers were the happiest at 40%.

Unfortunately, this fits with my informal assessment of friends and colleagues who are architects here in the United States... so, be nice to your designers, won't you?

Link: City & Guilds
Via: The Dirt


 Comments (1)
bjb  — April 7, 2005
Designers are service employees
how many have gone in to college thinking they can design buildings as a living or draw art for a living, only to find out they have to design what other's want, not what they want and quickly change their majors to Fine Art or Marketing? I often tell people going in that it's not art, it's math. It's a service position. Vector lines, all added up to what someone else thinks looks nice. How many times do you give people one great option and 2 lousy options and they pick the lousy option? yeah. it's the life.
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