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The career I have chosen for this project is Architecture. A building
architect to be more specific. The career has many characteristics of work that
I wish to pursue as I grow up.
The main idea is thinking of new, and visually
nice designs to grab your client’s attention for them to buy your design. It
also is a job were mathematics and now computer training is needed. The nature
of work of an Architect is basically the design of building and other
structures.
The design of the building must not only be creative and what the
client wants, but their is many different regulations and rules to follow to
make the building affordable, safe, and proper size for it to fit in its
specifically picked out plantation.
First the Architect and the client must
discuss the basic idea of the project, giving him basic ideas like size, shape,
number of rooms and budget. The Architect will then make blue prints or drawing
of his ideas, then present them to the client or clients who he is working for,
to see if they like his idea and if they have any comments or suggestions that
they would like to get met.
If the clients like that idea of the building, the
Architect must then draw final construction plans which show the building’s
general appearance and details for it’s construction. Such details as the
air-conditioning, ventilation and electrical systems to name a few.
Architects
now sometimes turn to computer-aided design and drafting or (CADD) only a few
Architects will plan all their work out by hand anymore.
The working conditions
of the Architect are pretty lenient; they like to work in comfortable
environments, some times at home or an office to make up their designs. This is
mainly why I want to pursue this profession, because of the liberal, flexible
use of your time.
But most of their time is spent going to their client’s
offices or working with other architect. Also sometimes they will go to the
construction site of where their design is being built to see how things are
running and to make sure they built it as he wanted or to answer any questions.
Architects some times have to work long hours and weekends to meet specific
deadlines, which can start to be very stressful. The training and education for
architects isn’t any thing outrageous. All states require an architect to be
licensed before he/she starts to make their own designs.
Before they are
licensed they are called intern-architects, basically just helping prepare
construction designs or assisting in the design. This training period gives them
basic work experience while they prepare for the Architect Registration
Examination (ARE).
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