My wife and I attended a tailgate reunion – my personal favorite kind – for her university degree graduating class, before the Michigan State/Air Force football game. Collegiate reunions are rare, but her specialized five year degree in Landscape Architecture had only twenty other students in it who studied abroad together before being exposed to all classes and labs together during that five year span of their lives – making for a close knit community that studied together abroad as well.
As everyone caught up, one startling fact emerged: Despite graduating from one of the leading programs for landscape architecture 11 years after graduation, few in their group remained landscape architects today! It became the running joke at the tailgate party. Of those I spoke with, current professions included:
Greenroof installer, roofing salesperson, lighting salesperson, full-time housewife, CFO of an arboretum and paramedic EMT are among those working as freelance professionals in their respective industries.
My wife also recently transitioned from landscape architecture to nursing a few years ago, although not at my recommendation. Of the trained landscape architects I surveyed for our 5-year university program boasting 100% job placement rates, only 1 had continued doing landscape architecture after only 10 years in practice!
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