Old Mechanic -
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
In our local phone book there are about 15 Architects listed.
40 pages of attorneys.
Thomas Jefferson wanted to limit the number of attorneys to 1 for every 1600voting citizens, which today would work out to about 1 in 10,000 population or even higher.
regards
Mech
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It's funny you mentioned architects and attorneys in the same post. Maybe 20 years ago I went to an architecture seminar in which architects were trying to figure out how to maintain relevance. The problem was and is, there are too many per capita :
How architects' incomes have fared in the United States | archsoc.com
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By the mid-2000s, architects were as common as ushers and lobby atendants (source: OES 2006).
It may be that the feeling of malaise in the occupation has little to do with economics, and more to do with the sociological bloating of the occupation. Too many graduates competing for the same share of the pie.
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In the seminar they cited a similar turn-of-the (previous) century quandary
that lawyers were facing. Their answer was to state that their "skillzz" were universally applicable to other professions. The idea was, you could get a lawyer's degree and then go do something else, like be a politician or a manager. The architect's argument was that they had "universal" skillzz too, but weren't figuring out how to apply them outside of architecture.
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