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We dissect why you might want to rethink being an architect, the world’s largest chimney, and would you want to live over a freeway?

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The story is becoming all too common these days.  A few more are being let go this month because there’s no work to keep them busy.  Talented and career-minded people.  Friends and colleagues, mothers and fathers.  The economy doesn’t care about the various affiliations behind your name on a business card.  The economy doesn’t care if you have a mortgage to pay or a family of mouths to feed.

My neck on the proverbial chopping block.

You see, up until about a month ago, I considered myself one of the lucky ones.  I was working in an office that had yet to be touched by the big, bad economy monster.  I wasn’t blind though, I could see what was happening out there and when the lay-offs started hitting closer to home, it wasn’t all that much of a surprise really.  Every time another friend was let go, I counted my lucky stars that I still had a job to return to.  None of this should be news to any of you.

Then it finally happened and it was my neck on the proverbial chopping block.  My turn to step up and take one for the team.  What I’ve witnessed in the time since then, has honestly and truly scared me beyond all belief.

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Stephanie (Green) Silkwood, Assoc AIA, LEED AP completely disrupts the order of the show, Haley is in the future and the title of Architect is being undermined by the IT industry.

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Haley is out this week but Elise Drakes fills in as co-host and Seth Pare-Mayer, Kelli Franz, and Alaina McBride join us for an unusual show on Architectural entrepreneurship and how to market yourself.

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