What is your job????

[silverclaws]

What really annoys me is that IT people are allowed to use the term Architect, when its supposed to be protected.

Protected?

By whom, and for what end?

It costs me £90 a year, to the Architects Registration Board. It's a professional title like Doctor or Barrister, so that when you employ one you have a guarantee that the person you have employed is the real deal and not some person who can just sling a few plans together. There's a whole code of conduct and professional standards procedure. Clients can also report architects who fall short and get some redress. Also people claiming to be architects when they are not can be fined in criminal law.

Longun, I have on occasion seen plans where the architect has ignored brick dimensions, for some obscure reason/ignorance. Its staggering to think it happens, but then some architects like to think of themselves as artists and be unfettered by the realities of actually building anything.

So, what is it, seven years of full time college to qualify as an architect in buildings and structures and you have to pay ninety quid a year to stay in the club ? What's the condition of subsequent subscription, just pay up and that's it, or is it any kind of proof you have to provide that you are still capable ? Or is it just another private club that exists to make money for itself on the backs of professionals ?

 

[MCsanandreas]

i work in a firm that makes football and rugby goalposts,other sports equipment too.

mind numbing,soul destroying drudgery! hate it(pay is poo too!)

 

[claret73]

Electrician...
Retrained out of Print because that went on its Arse once Technology grabbed hold. Thought another Trade would provide stability...3yrs of training & 3 years of halving my salary results in...being on the Arse end of the Construction Industry!...

Now working on a Plan C...

 

[gibbleking]

im a sparkie too...i now teach cycling to school kids...all that training and i now do something i could have done years ago..go figure

 

[bryan555]

I cut up dead things.

:shock:

 

[claret73]

im a sparkie too...i now teach cycling to school kids...all that training and i now do something i could have done years ago..go figure

Maybe this needs to be my Plan C...Finding something that I actually enjoy...so you still do a bit of wiring or has 'Part P' Done it for you?...

 

[azaro]

Area Sales Manager in financial services.
Manage a team of mortgage consultants.
Yawn!!!

 

[gibbleking]

im a sparkie too...i now teach cycling to school kids...all that training and i now do something i could have done years ago..go figure

Maybe this needs to be my Plan C...Finding something that I actually enjoy...so you still do a bit of wiring or has 'Part P' Done it for you?...

it was being on cold building sites that did it in the end ..that and being electrocuted a lot..

 

[Supratada]

So, what is it, seven years of full time college to qualify as an architect in buildings and structures and you have to pay ninety quid a year to stay in the club ? What's the condition of subsequent subscription, just pay up and that's it, or is it any kind of proof you have to provide that you are still capable ? Or is it just another private club that exists to make money for itself on the backs of professionals ?

CPD, or Continual Professional Development must be undertaken yearly. They have random audits. If you want to be part of the RIBA however, that's about £300 a year, but you do get a magazine every month.

 

[Supratada]

Production Supervisor in acoustic cabinet making for a high end loud speaker company.

Is it true that Birch makes the best cabinets due to its natural high resonance?