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Knowing when to kill your projects
Sometimes a project is not how you imagined it to be
For a while now, I have been doing moonlight work to supplement my income. I work in the AEC (Architecture, engineering, construction) in the Architecture aspect of the industry and five years into it; I find the money attached to it laughable.
I will repeat it. Laughable.
Don’t get me wrong; I find my profession perpetually exciting and challenging. However, it is not the boredom that will take me out of it: it’s the burnout and the lack of fair pay.
Freelance work was a low hanging fruit, although I see the irony of pursuing more work of the exact nature on the side. But I know the ins and outs of the process of Architecture. I studied and am currently practising professional, and I also believe I can do it more efficiently as there are fewer gatekeepers to get on with the job. The exception of which is the Client sign-off and the local Council, of course.
Sounds like a plan, right? Up to a point.
Much like the day job, it will have the same issue. In the same instance, these issues are what makes a job exciting and why a project dies. They are a few ones that stand out in this.
