my date with RK

I'm working on a group project for my tech class and we were assigned a building at the Shilo military base. It's a building that is of a typical design for the architect that designed it and we were impressed by the structure and the tour we were given by the military personnel.

We've been making a scale model of the building at a 1:10 scale which is huge, but we were only required to do a section of the building, detailing construction and connections and whatever was relevant to the model. We also made a point of arranging a phone interview with the architect who is retired and lives in California.

We weren't as impressed after the conversation and I won't say the name of the architect because he probably googles himself regularly and I don't want him to think I'm even more of a hack after writing this, but I will say that he gave us one piece of advice: he could tell we lacked creative instincts and should therefore drop out and switch to dentistry or risk being stuck as uncreative managers all our working lives.

Sound advice form one generation to another. For those of you keeping score that's twice in two weeks that someone has told me to leave the profession.

peace.