I was there for a while too. I worked all the way through college but luckily graduate school was fully funded. Work came easy after college but everyone make any money as an architect you have to become a project lead. Which means you pretty much give up a lot of design time and favor of management. I don’t think my employer has touched a pencil or a mouse in the 5 years that I’ve been there with the exception of this past season when everything went sideways.
You eventually have to become everything they don’t teach you in school. You’re an accountant, an attorney, and office manager, a socialite, and on good days you don’t have to manage your employees. If you think what you’re being taught in school
. I’m not griping about my position with the choices I’ve made, but most schools do not inform the students of what it really takes to become a successful architect.
