I’m in my first year of my architectural drafting class, but I have been looking at job sites and not seeing too many in this field. Is it because of the bad job market or because drafters and CAD designers are not needed?
The program is for a 2 year associates
And it is at a community college so it is a non-profit school
Architecture was hit pretty hard by the recession, because when money starts to dry up developers have to cancel their projects and they can’t afford to start new ones. No projects = no architects.
You can expect the number of available jobs to increase in the coming years as land development picks back up.
You should really consider upgrading your education to a Bachelors in Architecture at some point in the future.
March 29th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I’m not sure if there are too many jobs for drafters or engineering technicians. Perhaps you can continue in the associate degree program and get the job/technical skills and consider transferring to a university.
For general career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search ‘drafters’, ‘engineering technicians’, ‘architects’ or such.
With schooling, please steer clear of those online, for-profit schools (may have ‘brick and mortar’ buildings and may be ‘accredited’) such as penn foster, ashworth, university of phoenix, strayer, ITT tech, devry, ashford, capella, argosy, walden, sanford brown, everest, kaplan, colorado tech, ashwood, high tech and others as they are merely out to ‘make a profit’ (and course credits may Not transfer to other schools): http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search.
For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ
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March 29th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Architecture was hit pretty hard by the recession, because when money starts to dry up developers have to cancel their projects and they can’t afford to start new ones. No projects = no architects.
You can expect the number of available jobs to increase in the coming years as land development picks back up.
You should really consider upgrading your education to a Bachelors in Architecture at some point in the future.
References :