Re: Crappy Pay - WHY???

   Yes, gobble information, but ... go for the kind your that
   will lure Nic's exploiters and trounce competitors.

   Chris Gray and John Massengale, here, will perhaps share
   their tips on Avery and other rich (and free) archives
   around the region where you can pickpocket and fence the
   loot to fat, lazy ignorant, arrogant clients like, oh,
   let's see, Stern, BBB, HHP, Polshek, Roche, the LPC, well,
   all the current neo-historicist hustlers.

   Exploit similar bountiful design and planning troves in
   technics, aesthetics, finance, law, development and more,
   to enhance your architectural couture. Beware short-term
   market definitions of what is profitable. All of the
neo-hist
   good-bones sneered at blue-hair herstory 20 years ago.

   My best lesson at CU was learning the pleasures of
   unending, promiscuous research -- literary, field, job
   meetings, dinner parties, construction sites, political
   rallies, cleaning sewers, where and whatever -- especially
   beyond the spoon-fed type too often fostered in
   architecture schools with a narrow-band studio-supreme
   design philosophy.

   For every hot rag you read, rummage the Avery cellar
   dumpster and read ten of the same from 20, 30, 50, 80 years
   ago for perspective on career-mongering, manufacturers'
   feeding archi-vanities, disasters, bitches and bile.

   For every surveillance of the enemy at oft-empty Urban
   Center books make ten to McGraw Hill Bookstore to study,
   steal or buy truly useful volumes and wonder at the crowds
   cramming for success. (Pity and forgive wallpaper samples
   like those at the Avery stair landing.)

   For every over-notable landmark safely admired, risk ten
   that scare the shit out of you due to location, local
   populations, or unfamiliarity (there are tons of those five
   minutes from truly horrific CU; megatons 30 minutes by the
   subway sewer).

   For every swell client or boss or prof you hustle, work
   with ten who don't know what a designer does, can't pay or
   refer you, and are different from anyone you've ever known.

   For every museum/storefront teat-fed exhibit, concoct ten
   of your own by exploring and designing parts of the city,
   region, planet, mind and body where curators are unfunded
   to go -- until you show them the treasure (ref. Testa, PW
   and Black Forest, Urban Deadline, fringe preservation!).

   For every list of smart-ass advice like this, secretly
   design ten of your own, camouflaged, as Nic jeers, by
   unctuous allurements -- like those in Avery stairwell, and,
   how can I not boost them, our Design-L authors' most
   admirable purloinments.

   Now, one useful tip: study "The Contractors Guide to Change
   Orders" and "The Negotiator's Factomatic." Both are chock
   full of advice on making more money by mauling your
   competition -- takes guile, avaricity and guts, that is,
true
   design strengths.