The economy finally claimed me as it's next victim. In fact, I feel lucky, in the landscape architecture field, to have kept my position as long as I did, considering we are so directly related to the real estate market. If no one is buying houses, we're not doing much landscape architecting. And I probably won't move around in the field since most firms are in the same boat, which may mean a goodbye to the landscape architecture field for a while. But, there is a plus side. I will no longer be forced to have this conversation.
Person - So what do you do?
Bryan - I'm in landscape architecture.
Person - Oh, so you do lawn care and landscaping then...
Bryan - No. No, we actually do... we do community planning and campus planning.
Person - Okay, like, you guys do the landscaping for schools and neighborhoods?
Bryan - Kind of.... we're the ones who design the outside areas.., you know, we plan how communities are laid out, and we put in parking lots and deal with the topo and drainage...
Person - I thought the architect did that.
Bryan - Sometimes an architect will have a landscape architect on staff....
Person - So then you guys go out and grade the land and plant the plants...
Bryan - We don't... no we don't plant the plants...we determine where the plant is going to go and then another company....a land "scaping" company actually come out and does the landscaping.
Person - Why would you need to be a licensed architect to pick out plants?
Bryan - Well, there are other things. Topo, drainage, building codes...
Person - But you don't do buildings....
Bryan - There are outside codes as well.
Person - Can you come look at our yard?
4 comments:
This is great!!!! So you can you come look at our yard in your free time? We'll give you cookies.
Can you come and look at my yard?
Don't worry, Obama will take care of you....
That sucks! My brother-in-law in NJ lost his job in the real estate arena a few weeks ago. Time to fire up the comic book heroes.
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