Kill me now
I should really change my blog description to be me bitching about my job/boss. I am at the point where I really can't handle it anymore on a mental level. It's just quite frankly insane here. I realize that it took me about 7 years, about 5 part time but hey it counts too, to get to the point of how I feel about my current job, with my last job. At this job it only took me 9 months. I believe anyone thats in a job they don't like knows what feeling I'm talking about.
The struggle to get out of bed in the morning. Always showing up late because you really don't want to be there. Bitching about your boss/job during every second of the day. That "I'm really pissed off so don't even fucking think of saying a god damn thing to me" look on your face for the entire work day. The overwhelming urge to tell your boss to go fuck himself and quit on the spot. The sour stomach that comes with all of the above.
I'd really love to quit and tell my boss exactly what I think of him. But as you can see from the previous post I'm about to buy a house. Not too mention buying the house will stretch my budget to the point of just having enough to pay my bills and still buy food.
If anyone has any good links to information on architectural portfolio's of people that are already employed and out of school post them in a comment. I have tons of good information for portfolio's for recent college graduates, or people looking to get into graduate school but not much at all for people that need to put a portfolio of work together from actual working experience. I really doubt an employer wants to see my now 5 year old fantasy projects from school.
The struggle to get out of bed in the morning. Always showing up late because you really don't want to be there. Bitching about your boss/job during every second of the day. That "I'm really pissed off so don't even fucking think of saying a god damn thing to me" look on your face for the entire work day. The overwhelming urge to tell your boss to go fuck himself and quit on the spot. The sour stomach that comes with all of the above.
I'd really love to quit and tell my boss exactly what I think of him. But as you can see from the previous post I'm about to buy a house. Not too mention buying the house will stretch my budget to the point of just having enough to pay my bills and still buy food.
If anyone has any good links to information on architectural portfolio's of people that are already employed and out of school post them in a comment. I have tons of good information for portfolio's for recent college graduates, or people looking to get into graduate school but not much at all for people that need to put a portfolio of work together from actual working experience. I really doubt an employer wants to see my now 5 year old fantasy projects from school.
posted by Kent at 6:39 AM
4 Comments:
What I did, a lot of the times, was take in a half-size set of project drawings to interviews. I couldn't get much closer to "examples of my work" than that. I'd use it to explain what parts of the project I'd worked on. If your office has any photographs of projects you've worked on, see if you can snag copies. My portfolio sucks ass- it's nothing but school work, because I haven't been allowed to design anything since then. I actually pulled a fire station design out of my ass, just in order to add something to it that I'd "done since school."
Thanks for the advice CAD Monkey. In your experience have you found that interviewers are receptive to that type of format? From what I've read I fealt like its necessary to format all my projects into one cohesive format for a more formal portfolio. Since I've been out in the workplace Do they keep that in mind when you show them your work. For my current job (mind you my boss is a jack ass) I just showed him the actual sheets that I was responsible for at my old job on one project and a few 3d renderings I did. Would that be sufficient to go look for a new job? Hell even if I don't have a portfolio I think I'm just going to start setting up some interviews.
My best advice: Have a good resume. Have a good "presence" with the interviewer. No matter how much you're hating life at the time, be pleasant and intelligent with the conversation. I blew more than a couple of interviews by putting off the "desperate" vibe.
Since graduating I've really only been on 3 interviews. The first one did not go well. They didn't quite sense desperation but they questioned a lot of the reasons I wanted to leave my old firm. Hindsight is a real bitch. I should have listened to them more carefully. They dismissed many of those reasons and didn't outright say it but pretty much suggested that maybe I reevaluate why I wanted a new job. I'm still not sorry for leaving my last one, just not happy where I ended up.
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