Tell me about it. As a graduate it’s even worse. I suffered more than anyone I knew at uni for my degree. Have borderline PTSD from spending 13 hours a day in the library for months on end only to get told “your building is contradictory” whatever the fuck that means. Graduated with a high grade.
Took 2 years of searching for jobs while in retail being told one part one position I applied to had over 3000 applicants and it wasn’t even known national firm.
All these grad jobs were offering around 19k and I must say some of the interviews were horrible, really arrogant rude people, like the stereotype arsehole tutors you met at uni but now they’re gonna be your boss.
Not I work for a planning consultancy on much more money than any of those were offering with really nice people who value work like balance. There’s an architect in the office who often asks me if I’m gonna go back for part 2 and while it’s always been my dream it just feels like a waste of money and potentially damage to my mental health.
Apologies for the rant but architecture just seems broken. Is it really so hard to charge the clients more and pay the workers decent wages and give them time it actually takes to get things done?
