Yet more support against plonking. ;P
Yet more support against plonking. ;P
Hi Kris,
I'm sorry but I don't understand what (GNU) means? I will look in shareware.. I have used this source before.
Can you suggest a webhost to use?
Thank you for your input. Artist.
To the Newsgroup:
Is there 1:1 females practicing in your firm today? Last I look at graduate schools ... in the studios... it was not 1:1. And are the female architects getting paid the same? Same benefits? Same expectations? Really... Let me help you pull the wool out of your eyes!
Female Architects are more likely to get laid off do to not being the bread winner in the family... miss conception most times but it is what it is. Female Architect have to prove themselves more and wait longer to get more responsibility on a project and are questioned all they... for example: I designed a scissors truss for an Elementary School while working for a Pa. firm. One of the Senior Associates was very excited and supportive but my equals were telling me it could not be done and it would not be more economical... I prove them wrong...
Another example was a code review for a large scale project. I was very complete but not as fast as my male counter part working on another project... the male counter part forgot to review the building for a large number of sections but it was okay with the Principles knowing a senior associate was going to review his work. That same Senior Associates call me up personally and complemented me on my work and stated I did an excellent job. Stating that my work equated to much less time for him to do his review of my work... But one of the Principles in the firm told me I was much slower then other counter parts and more or less laid me off for being an excellent skilled worker that his firm didn't want to pay for. He would rather pay for a lesser skilled and not as competent worker. The Principle would rather pay for speed and mistakes then a complete well done job... My experience is female architect are more concern with quality of there work and do not watch the clock as male counter maybe more likely to do
As fare as sexism... all of my atmospheres I have worked in have been nothing but professional... But working on the East Coast and I might add Philadelphia Area... it is still quite hard for a female architect well over and above the cat calling on the job sites.
Can't win for losing...
Artist.
Ron-
Are they a real business card? Really cool idea I will check them out for networking.
I read nothing in what you wrote that _any_ person, male or female, wouldn't have experienced.
If you are going into architecture for the lucre, I suggest you re- examine the situation and/or lower your expectations.
RR-
Not in the profession for money... but do need to live... I am a extremely creative an innovative person... this is why I entered the profession... And if Architecture is a true profession of which it truly is, I will not lower my expectation of it only of the people practicing the profession.
Maybe ... but it was not my feeling when it was happening to me... I am trying to be objective about my passed situations and am looking forward to my future employment.
There will be many people that will either actively help or hinder your career. Some of them are in your own firm, some of them are clients, AHJs, etc. There are also many reasons that they may interfere with what you feel should be done. Professional jealousy, simple dislike of you, ulterior motives of their own counter to your objectives, etc., etc. This comes with the territory regardless of what race, creed, or gender.
It's a bell curve just like everything else. There are people that will offer you a job because you're tall and blonde, which is just as wrong as refusing it to you for that reason. It happens. Trying to legislate idiocy out of society is impossible and a stupid effort. If you're good at what you do, able to handle pressure and take care of the details and you're easy to get along with and not absorbed in office politics, you'll do fine wherever you go. If the firm doesn't appreciate those qualities, you're at the _wrong_ firm. Move on.
R
Dear Artist,
Here's a vocabulary list with example that might help you in reconstructing your story for others:
associate/associates ex. The same Senior Associate called me up, complemented me on my work and stated that I did an excellent job, stating that my attention to detail equated with less review time for him."
Women
pull the wool over someone's eyes. ex. He tried to pull the wool over their eyes, but they weren't fooled." The reverse is not used normally as a colloquial expression.
principal/principals.
counterpart
attention to detail
job well done ex. The principal would rather pay for speed and errors than a job well done.
sexism does not equate with sexual harassment. ex. "All of the environments in which I have worked in the Philadelphia area have been nothing but professional, but I have been subjected to cat calls on job sites. "
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Basically, Artist, not a sentence written in your message above approximates modern standard American English. As for what you are reporting about your last position, you stated yourself that senior associates in the firm would review the work, probably because they are registered architects/engineers. It's nice that you are so thorough that one of your supervisors didn't have much to worry about. That would ordinarily put you in a position to be advanced in the firm. But perhaps the way the project was scheduled caused your part of the process to have a negative impact upon the schedule? Perhaps not. In any case, you obviously don't have the English to write specs or to go unsupervised for even titling, I imagine. Don't think I'm putting you down. Learning deficits are curable, after all. I suggest you contact the one senior associate in your previous firm that complemented your attention to detail and ask his advice in finding and writing you a recommendation for a position in another firm. It sound as if you have at least one person interested in your career.
They can be labelled, picture a small disk with two edges cropped, these are what I have :
"Artist" wrote in news:z%Omi.325224$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
After reading lots of the responses in the NG, I've decided they're all bunk. We're in a hiring mode, so I know what I'm looking for:
1) Accredited Professional Degree2) Desire to be the owner of their own firm at some point.
3) Preferred: Real office experience.4) Proficiency in some CAD program, prefer Revit or AutoCAD ADT (or whatever they're calling it these days). If they don't do these programs, then a willingness to shut the hell up about how whatever program they know is better than Revit or ADT.
5) An ability to think, try.6) References that can honestly answer as to what type of employee they are: work ethic, sense of humor, etc.
I really don't care about most portfolio stuff. They're not being hired to design--that's what we get to do because we own the firm. I do care if they CAN get around FTP, HTML, and some basic web stuff because we use it quite a bit.
Mostly we look for somebody with true ambition. We expect them to be here a few years, then move on. We're looking for people like us when we were employees--we provided good value to our employers.
Here's our current "Employee Manual":
If you like libre/free software (not to be confused with "freeware"), you'll feel like a kid in a candy shop at the world's largest free software repository:
Newsgroup:
I?m a severe dyslexic legally. Dyslexia can not be cured and I will not go into it here. I am protected under ADA and can not be discriminated against because I am dyslexic. My strengths are vastly under used. And you are so correct; writing is not my strong suit. I am extremely creative and highly intelligent. I am an excellent thinker and designer due to being dyslexic. My management skills due to dyslexia are very strong because I can see the big picture clear and strong? My strength and abilities apply themselves very well to architecture. But for some reason all off you ? licensed architects? can only judge my use of the word ?detail? as in building details and specification not in design. Can?t wait till I pass my ARE and I can finally be the excellent creative architect I know I am. Most architects are too blinded to exercise my strengths for the good of their company. Never mind... no one has any idea how frustrating it is. Check out my thesis then see if you want me empting your trash cans or have me as a strong member of your team.
Link to my Masters thesis might give you an insight into my abilities. My professors at Virginia Tech called my work exempletory.
Don-
I designed the parameters, required span, shape of the truss but did not engineer the truss. A truss manufacturer did and you have corrected me.
It was a very unusual situation. But I guess you will pick that part as well.
I as for advice and get picked apart.
Thanks but no thanks. Artist.
Fine.
I can have my opinion based on what I see and hear and have experienced in the office. Always exceptions.
Why don't you throw some of that constructio Michigan's way......we are dying over here :-)
Do you mind if I steal this......it is excellent.
Paul F.
Excellent. Printing it out for the son going into different field entirely. Like the addition of #2 in the looking for category, cause people gotta dream, kinda don't like #9 on at-will, which relates to the "I get to design" concept. There are firms where only the kiddies design and everyone else plays backup for Bozo, but it would be nice to conceive of a firm in which collaboration allows a lot of ideas and competence form all in a great collaborative effort.
You will need to collaborate in those areas I mentioned, which involve=20 writing skills, no matter how talented you may be in design.
It is over 52 megabytes to download to read. Do you have a small visual =
sample?
Don:
I am approved to have a special accommodations for the ARE by NCARB and approved to start taking the exams through the state of NJ... it will not be to long now... Last hurtle. I have completed the IDP .
Thanks for your help and advice. Sincerely, Artist.
Don-
In a nut shell everyone with this disability is affected differently and at different levels. In general it affects my left brain skills of reading, mathematics, and writing skills. Short term memory of structural formulas is hard and I need to look up the formulas to make sure I am using the right one. I have been through years of therapy and direction for improving and gaining skills to correct my accuracy and expediency. Reading comprehension maybe be slower as in I may need to read something over a few times to get the full clear meaning, such as, reading building codes. With the assistance of a computer and the internet I can compensate quite well.
Dyslexia is also a visual gift let say. I have tremendous visual skills, organizational skills, analytical skills... it's a trade off.
This is a brief synopsis.
Thanks for asking.
Artist
Newsgroup:
I tried to submit the .PDF to this newsgroup but the posting has never arrived.
The small file is 4.185 kb.
If anyone knows how I can submit the file let me know, otherwise you have to download the full published version of my thesis from:
I can also send the small version to your email address if you give it to me. Not sure if I can ask or suggest that. sorry if am not allowed. New to newsgroups.
Sincerely, Artist
You will need to collaborate in those areas I mentioned, which involve writing skills, no matter how talented you may be in design.
It is over 52 megabytes to download to read. Do you have a small visual sample?
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