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Lance
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How hard is it to be a Architect?
I’m a middle schooler and for years I have liked to build stuff so this career has been what I have wanted for most of my life
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Don Holland
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Hello Lance,
Depending on where your work and what your responsibilities are the job of an architect can vary. I've heard that being an architect can be very difficult, long hours, demanding in terms of educational requirements, pressure in terms of what you need to achieve and the difficulties of being creative at times. If you really want to be an architect, I would definitely try but I understand that there might be worries when it comes to things that I mentioned above. It really depends on how much you are willing to do this and whether it is worth it for you. Hope you are able to figure out if this is what you want to do and there is always other opportunities if you don't want to do this. Best of luck to you in your future!
Depending on where your work and what your responsibilities are the job of an architect can vary. I've heard that being an architect can be very difficult, long hours, demanding in terms of educational requirements, pressure in terms of what you need to achieve and the difficulties of being creative at times. If you really want to be an architect, I would definitely try but I understand that there might be worries when it comes to things that I mentioned above. It really depends on how much you are willing to do this and whether it is worth it for you. Hope you are able to figure out if this is what you want to do and there is always other opportunities if you don't want to do this. Best of luck to you in your future!
Maria Rehmet
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Hi Lance! I'm not going to lie to you, architecture can be a challenging field. But the good news is that challenging means rewarding, especially if you are passionate about it. I think a better question would be, is it worth it?
In my opinion, yes! The occasional long hours, and late night projects can yield amazing results and work that you are proud of. We work hard because we want our ideas to come to reality, and sometimes that takes extra elbow grease. Every firm is different, every client is different, and every project is different, so some are more difficult than others, so it's really about finding what you want to focus on (design, project management, construction, BIM) there's a niche for everyone!
Architecture school is a great way to gauge if you will think the difficulty level of architecture is worth it for you, so I highly recommend pursuing the education of it (and no shame in switching career paths at any time, I did that to get into architecture!)
Good luck!
In my opinion, yes! The occasional long hours, and late night projects can yield amazing results and work that you are proud of. We work hard because we want our ideas to come to reality, and sometimes that takes extra elbow grease. Every firm is different, every client is different, and every project is different, so some are more difficult than others, so it's really about finding what you want to focus on (design, project management, construction, BIM) there's a niche for everyone!
Architecture school is a great way to gauge if you will think the difficulty level of architecture is worth it for you, so I highly recommend pursuing the education of it (and no shame in switching career paths at any time, I did that to get into architecture!)
Good luck!
Robiah Thabit
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Robiah’s Answer
Hello Lance,
I have some friends who are architects, and this is what they tell me each time we hang out.
They say you really need to enjoy math, art, science, and problem-solving, because architecture is all about combining creativity with technical skills to design safe and beautiful buildings.
The hard parts are the long hours, tough deadlines, and sometimes dealing with strict building rules. But the best parts are seeing your ideas turn into real buildings and knowing that people will live, work, and learn in the spaces you designed.
Since you’re still in middle school, the best way to prepare is to keep building things, sketching ideas, and practicing your creativity. Pay attention in math, science, and technical drawings, those subjects will really help later.
I have some friends who are architects, and this is what they tell me each time we hang out.
They say you really need to enjoy math, art, science, and problem-solving, because architecture is all about combining creativity with technical skills to design safe and beautiful buildings.
The hard parts are the long hours, tough deadlines, and sometimes dealing with strict building rules. But the best parts are seeing your ideas turn into real buildings and knowing that people will live, work, and learn in the spaces you designed.
Since you’re still in middle school, the best way to prepare is to keep building things, sketching ideas, and practicing your creativity. Pay attention in math, science, and technical drawings, those subjects will really help later.
James Constantine Frangos
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James Constantine’s Answer
Good Day Lance!
These concepts start out as ideas, become designs, get drawn or sketched and end up as buildings! You shall find it is a process of mental expression that relies on nutrients. How these ideas get generated is a biochemical process! The brain is fueled from gradual glucose not lots of simple carbohydrate sweet foods.
The human body relies on 102 nutrients to function at peak performance. That is evidenced by the stark improvement in academic results eventuating from nutritional repletion. The human brain is probably one of the most complex biochemical arrangements, which responds to the administration of nutrients from foods.
Only 3% of students get accepted to study at Harvard University. What gets people in is a high GPA [Grade Point Average] OVER 4.
You can get academic results of 4.8 to 5.0 GPA, placing you in the top 1% to 5% of academic achievers. It is human empowerment with nutrition.
This form of nutritional manipulation can be done without pills. It is done by foods. It can elevate academic results to high distinctions [95%].
Similarly for work performance too. To get high Grade Point Averages and Perform Well at Work, we must adhere to the principles of very good nutritional intakes.
Nourish the Mind!
① No more than 2 hours between meals when studying or working. That ensures a steady supply of nutrients to the cerebellum.
② 33 milliliters per kilogram body weight per day water / green tea is an extremely powerful protective antioxidant.
③ Salads using vegetables like Artichokes, Asparagus, Aubergine, Bamboo shoots, Bean Sprouts, Beet Greens, Broccoli,
Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Capsicum, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celeriac, Celery, Chard, Chilis, Chinese Veg Mix, Coffee,
Collards, Courgettes, Cucumber, Dandelion, Endives, Garlic, Green beans, Herbal teas, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce,
Marrow, Mushrooms, Okra, Onion, Peppers, Pumpkin, Radishes, Rocket, Soup made from these vegetables, Soy beans,
Spices, Spinach, Sprouts, Squash, Tea, Tomatoes, Tomato juice, Vegetable juice, Zucchini ad libitum.
These are not starchy, but have minerals like magnesium and potassium.
④ Use low glycemic index [GI under 55] carbohydrates up to 100 grams at a meal to ensure that the blood sugar is steady.
[breads, cereals, grains, pasta, fruit, legumes, starchy vegetables] Pumpernickel rye read is perfection like baked beans.
⑤ Use protein foods at each meal, 30 grams to 50 grams to supply amino acids to the brain, to make neurotransmitters.
[lean meat, poultry, crustaceans/fish/shellfish, egg, cheese, milk, yoghurt] Try vegetarian proteins too like peanut paste.
⑥ Approximately 25 grams lipids - highest polyphenol extra-virgin olive oil / olive oil spread / fish oil / cod liver oil.
[Better than Butter / Margarine].
SAMPLE MEAL: 1 SANDWICH MADE WITH BLACK PUMPERNICKEL RYE BREAD, RED SALMON, OLIVE OIL SPREAD, SALAD, BLACK OLIVES MINUS SEEDS; 2 CUPS OF GREEN TEA NO SUGAR.
REFERENCES:-
#1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16014126/ (Nutrition and student performance at school Howard Taras 1)
#2 https://www.cmich.edu/news/details/how-important-is-nutrition-to-academic-success (How important is nutrition to academic success?)
#3 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5746694/ (Associations between Dietary Intake and Academic Achievement in College Students: A Systematic Review Tracy L Burrows 1, Megan C Whatnall 1, Amanda J Patterson 1, Melinda J Hutchesson 1,*)
#4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27599886/ (Is there an association between dietary intake and academic achievement: a systematic review T Burrows 1, S Goldman 1, K Pursey 1, R Lim 2)
#5 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5746694/ (Associations between Dietary Intake and Academic Achievement in College Students: A Systematic Review Tracy L Burrows 1, Megan C Whatnall 1, Amanda J Patterson 1, Melinda J Hutchesson 1,*)
#6 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28487248/ (Associations between selected dietary behaviors and academic achievement.)
#7 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36047050/ (Dietary intake and educational outcomes among Australian university students: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations Lena Babaeer 1, 2, Michalis Stylianou 3, Jacqueline L Walker 3, Sjaan R Gomersall 1, 3)
#8 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27015180/ (Dietary Habits Are Associated With School Performance in Adolescents So Young Kim 1, Songyong Sim, Bumjung Park, Il Gyu Kong, Jin-Hwan Kim, Hyo Geun Choi)
#9 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39439747/ (Association Between Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Cognitive Performance Among Adolescent Students From Underdeveloped Cities in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study - João Victor Laurindo Dos Santos 1 2, Ingrid Sofia Vieira de Melo 2, Clara Andrezza Crisóstomo Bezerra Costa 2 3, Layanne Cabral de Almeida 2, Dafiny Rodrigues Silva 4, Débora Cavalcante Ferro 1, Déborah Tenório Costa Paula 1, Mateus de Lima Macena 4, Nassib Bezerra Bueno 1, 4)
10 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30810252/ (Higher diet quality in university students is associated with higher academic achievement: a cross-sectional study. M C Whatnall 1 , A J Patterson 1 , T L Burrows 1 , M J Hutchesson 1).
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These concepts start out as ideas, become designs, get drawn or sketched and end up as buildings! You shall find it is a process of mental expression that relies on nutrients. How these ideas get generated is a biochemical process! The brain is fueled from gradual glucose not lots of simple carbohydrate sweet foods.
The human body relies on 102 nutrients to function at peak performance. That is evidenced by the stark improvement in academic results eventuating from nutritional repletion. The human brain is probably one of the most complex biochemical arrangements, which responds to the administration of nutrients from foods.
Only 3% of students get accepted to study at Harvard University. What gets people in is a high GPA [Grade Point Average] OVER 4.
You can get academic results of 4.8 to 5.0 GPA, placing you in the top 1% to 5% of academic achievers. It is human empowerment with nutrition.
This form of nutritional manipulation can be done without pills. It is done by foods. It can elevate academic results to high distinctions [95%].
Similarly for work performance too. To get high Grade Point Averages and Perform Well at Work, we must adhere to the principles of very good nutritional intakes.
Nourish the Mind!
① No more than 2 hours between meals when studying or working. That ensures a steady supply of nutrients to the cerebellum.
② 33 milliliters per kilogram body weight per day water / green tea is an extremely powerful protective antioxidant.
③ Salads using vegetables like Artichokes, Asparagus, Aubergine, Bamboo shoots, Bean Sprouts, Beet Greens, Broccoli,
Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Capsicum, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celeriac, Celery, Chard, Chilis, Chinese Veg Mix, Coffee,
Collards, Courgettes, Cucumber, Dandelion, Endives, Garlic, Green beans, Herbal teas, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce,
Marrow, Mushrooms, Okra, Onion, Peppers, Pumpkin, Radishes, Rocket, Soup made from these vegetables, Soy beans,
Spices, Spinach, Sprouts, Squash, Tea, Tomatoes, Tomato juice, Vegetable juice, Zucchini ad libitum.
These are not starchy, but have minerals like magnesium and potassium.
④ Use low glycemic index [GI under 55] carbohydrates up to 100 grams at a meal to ensure that the blood sugar is steady.
[breads, cereals, grains, pasta, fruit, legumes, starchy vegetables] Pumpernickel rye read is perfection like baked beans.
⑤ Use protein foods at each meal, 30 grams to 50 grams to supply amino acids to the brain, to make neurotransmitters.
[lean meat, poultry, crustaceans/fish/shellfish, egg, cheese, milk, yoghurt] Try vegetarian proteins too like peanut paste.
⑥ Approximately 25 grams lipids - highest polyphenol extra-virgin olive oil / olive oil spread / fish oil / cod liver oil.
[Better than Butter / Margarine].
SAMPLE MEAL: 1 SANDWICH MADE WITH BLACK PUMPERNICKEL RYE BREAD, RED SALMON, OLIVE OIL SPREAD, SALAD, BLACK OLIVES MINUS SEEDS; 2 CUPS OF GREEN TEA NO SUGAR.
REFERENCES:-
#1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16014126/ (Nutrition and student performance at school Howard Taras 1)
#2 https://www.cmich.edu/news/details/how-important-is-nutrition-to-academic-success (How important is nutrition to academic success?)
#3 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5746694/ (Associations between Dietary Intake and Academic Achievement in College Students: A Systematic Review Tracy L Burrows 1, Megan C Whatnall 1, Amanda J Patterson 1, Melinda J Hutchesson 1,*)
#4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27599886/ (Is there an association between dietary intake and academic achievement: a systematic review T Burrows 1, S Goldman 1, K Pursey 1, R Lim 2)
#5 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5746694/ (Associations between Dietary Intake and Academic Achievement in College Students: A Systematic Review Tracy L Burrows 1, Megan C Whatnall 1, Amanda J Patterson 1, Melinda J Hutchesson 1,*)
#6 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28487248/ (Associations between selected dietary behaviors and academic achievement.)
#7 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36047050/ (Dietary intake and educational outcomes among Australian university students: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations Lena Babaeer 1, 2, Michalis Stylianou 3, Jacqueline L Walker 3, Sjaan R Gomersall 1, 3)
#8 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27015180/ (Dietary Habits Are Associated With School Performance in Adolescents So Young Kim 1, Songyong Sim, Bumjung Park, Il Gyu Kong, Jin-Hwan Kim, Hyo Geun Choi)
#9 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39439747/ (Association Between Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Cognitive Performance Among Adolescent Students From Underdeveloped Cities in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study - João Victor Laurindo Dos Santos 1 2, Ingrid Sofia Vieira de Melo 2, Clara Andrezza Crisóstomo Bezerra Costa 2 3, Layanne Cabral de Almeida 2, Dafiny Rodrigues Silva 4, Débora Cavalcante Ferro 1, Déborah Tenório Costa Paula 1, Mateus de Lima Macena 4, Nassib Bezerra Bueno 1, 4)
10 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30810252/ (Higher diet quality in university students is associated with higher academic achievement: a cross-sectional study. M C Whatnall 1 , A J Patterson 1 , T L Burrows 1 , M J Hutchesson 1).
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