Is Architecture A Good Career?

hey everyone what's up today I want to talk to you guys about architecture and if I consider it to be a good career a lot of you guys have been asking me lately in the comments a lot of questions dealing with architecture and I noticed that a lot of you guys are either in high school now some of you guys are even in middle school a few of you guys have asked me about changing your majors from another major going into architecture and some of you guys are even working actually in other fields and are thinking about switching to architecture and are wondering this very question so I wanted to give you a little bit of insight today on this topic and I'm just gonna go briefly over what architecture is and if I consider it to be a good career or not and in the next few videos I'll be getting more into what school is like how architects get paid so on and so forth so the short answer is yes I think architecture is a great career and if that's the answer you're looking for then thank you so much for watching I hope you guys have an awesome day but if you want more information on why I think it's a great career then here it is for starters I think architecture is one of those careers where you're gonna be doing so much that you're really gonna discover a lot about yourself and what I mean by that is that architecture when you study architecture you learn about design and you learn how to design and what design is and the way that you do this is through sketching drawing learning history you're learning about programs you're actually using programs computer programs I mean so you're doing so much at the same time that you're getting kind of really good at everything and it's kind of like the term the Renaissance man you know an architect is basically a Renaissance man which if you look back into the Renaissance men from that era we're pretty much good at everything there were sculptors mathematicians they were architects so that's basically what an architect is it's a person that's actually uh not perfect at everything but you're gonna be really good at everything you're gonna be basically like a jack of all trades master of none so I'll let you guys decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing but I think it's really good because by being good at everything first of all you're able to have conversations with everybody you're able to keep up because something I want you to think about is when you're designing you have to learn about what you're gonna be designing so if you're gonna be designing a school you have to learn about how schools work you're gonna have to learn about is this school for kids is it a school for adults what type of school is it a school where they build airplanes for example you know am I gonna have to learn about hangers so every project that you get is gonna hat is gonna force you to do quite a bit of research on that actual project which means that you're gonna be learning about pretty much everything there is if you're gonna work at and you know you're gonna design a pharmacy you need to know how pharmacies work you're gonna have to talk to people that work in that industry to know more about how a pharmacy works same thing with the museum if you're gonna be designing a museum you're gonna want to know what type of art goes in that museum if any at all is it sculptures you're gonna talk to basically the head directors of that museum find out how it works so on and so forth so our studying architecture makes you a very well-rounded person in terms of the knowledge that you have but also the things you're capable of doing because I studied architecture now I'm able to pretty much design anything I want using computer programs I know Photoshop I know Adobe Illustrator I know AutoCAD Revit Rhyno a little bit of v-ray you know it's like the list just goes on and on which brings me to my next point which is that architects by studying architecture and the reason I consider it a good career is that you have so many opportunities to become who you want to be and what I mean by that is that if you want to if you decide that you at the end of your career you don't really enjoy buildings anymore you actually just love the furniture that goes inside the buildings and you can actually become a furniture designer because design is the fundamentals are pretty much the same all across so as as so when you learn to design you can basically apply those fundamentals and those principles to other aspects so it doesn't have to be buildings it could be furniture be jewelry it could be you know product design in general and it's so many it's just so many things that you can use your new skills for that it's incredible so it won't ever be like a dead end if you get bored at one job you could just look for another job that you could focus on you know I've run into architects that decided they wanted to work only on lighting you know and that maybe doesn't sound too exciting but lighting is very important in buildings and you can play around with the lighting and not use it only to make the space functional but you can use it as a design element and you can actually work somewhere like a firm where they only focus on lighting and those exists so that's something else to keep in mind pretty much whatever makes up a building you can work specifically in one of those elements it doesn't have to be just the building there's so many things you can do with with your knowledge of course just like everything I do think there are some negatives to Architecture one of the biggest negatives is that you are basically providing a service and what that means is that it's not like some businesses out there where let's say like an author an author can write a book and then they just spend so much time writing that one book and then if it you know if it does great it'll keep selling and it's almost like a passive sort of income you know architects don't have this lifestyle basically I'm getting paid for whatever project I work on and once the project is done I'm not getting paid anymore so this is one of the real negatives of architecture that I consider it is a negative but I don't consider it such a negative where it makes the whole career a negative I just think that it's something to think about now there are definitely ways around this you know you can think about how you can use your skills in architecture to create a business where you're probably providing a product rather than a service there are ways to do that so it just requires a little bit of thought and hopefully you can find companies or firms that can use your skills to create products or some sort of service where you can live more passively and learn from them but that's more of something that you can think about on your own time something else that I think makes architecture such a great career is that there's so much room to grow I kind of mentioned that a little bit before where you can use your skills to design furniture or pretty much any product but also within the field of like architecture and and construction for example there's so many opportunities you know when you begin when you're fresh out of school you can you'll probably be like some sort of render like someone who does the renders or you'll probably be the person who creates the plans you know from red lines and sketches and whatnot but then you can start to move up and you can become the project architect you can become like one of the head signers you can there's just so many options because architecture is not a one-person thing as we kind of imagined at the beginning it's actually a team thing so there are many team members involved in every architectural project and there are many opportunities for you to play a role as different people within that team do you see what I'm saying so that's what I think makes architecture really good again it's not a dead-end career there are so many ways to grow and if you're ever unhappy it's pretty simple to find something else within the career that'll make you way happier something else that I love about it is just the creativity in general a lot of jobs that I've had in the past they were really mundane and boring and just tedious in general where I was doing the same single thing every single day and it tends to get a little bit of you know a little bit boring and it's just not it's not creative at all and architecture is a complete opposite there are a few days that are similar at all some days you know you're working on a project and you're doing the same thing over and over for maybe like a few days maybe even a week at most but for the most part every single day will be different you're gonna be doing something different every single day and that's really I what I love about architecture like even if you are drawing plans every single day it's gonna be for a different project and I think that's one of the coolest things about architecture just the variety that's in your job and in your day-to-day so that you're not bored doing the same thing over and over it's it's thing that forces you to keep growing and keep getting better and just keep learning and that's that's what I love about it so that pretty much concludes this video like I said I'm gonna get deeper into the different aspects of architecture starting from the stages when you're gonna be in school what school looks like what you're gonna be doing I hope to make a few videos on that and then what working is like and pretty much everything that deals with architecture I'm gonna make those videos and I'm gonna be drawing inspiration from your guys's comments so if you haven't left comments before you can feel free to leave comments or questions and I'll actually try to touch up on those within my videos I still actually answer most I think I've answered every single comment if I haven't answered years I'm sorry but I do get a lot now and I actually talking about that I wanted to mention that the last video I posted was about four months ago and I think I had like 400 subscribers and we're way over a thousand now which is just incredible so I wanted to thank all you guys who have stuck around and and have been there since the beginning and the new guys who are joining us I think it's really awesome that you guys are here and I'm really looking forward to seeing your questions and comments and and like I said I do go back and I actually answer all your comments or at least I try to answer all your comments so if you guys ever have any questions just go ahead and leave those comments below hit that like button share it with your friends you know the whole thing the whole spiel so thanks again everybody and I will talk to you soon see you down in the comments

Channel: Mooch

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Id: 12sSoUNNaWM

Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 26 2019