Okay, here’s a sarcastic blog post, stripped down to the essentials, incorporating the provided information and using a sarcastic tone:
**My Fiancé of 5 Years: A Recipe for Disaster (and a Few Subtle Hints of Success)**
My fiancé, a 5-year-old architect with a degree in civil engineering, is currently in his master’s program to get licensed. He’s in a program where you complete an extra year and come out of school fully licensed in your state. Apparently, there are only about eight or so universities in the USA that offer this kind of program.
He works full-time during the summer and part-time during the school year at a local architecture firm in our home city. He’s been there since the second year of his first 4-year degree and currently makes $23/hour.
Now, he has that 4-year degree and roughly 5 years of experience under his belt. Unfortunately, the firm he’s at is very small and has a hostile work environment. There’s no HR department — not even outsourced. He and some of his coworkers have told me about multiple situations involving micro-racism and even borderline sexual harassment, yet nothing ever gets done about it.
One of the owners treats him as a “younger version of himself” and constantly holds him to higher standards. He’s scrutinized and criticized constantly, often for things that aren’t even his fault. It’s been killing his mental health, and for years now I’ve tried to convince him to look for work elsewhere.
He says he can’t, because:
* The architecture industry gossips a lot, and he’s afraid of being blacklisted locally.
* He doesn’t think he’ll find another position paying $23/hour, even with his degree and experience.
* His current job is very flexible with his school schedule (he sometimes needs unexpected time off for big projects or assignments). He doesn’t think he will find another form that is as last minute flexible with scheduling as his current workplace is.
My fiancé of 5 years is currently in his master’s program to get licensed. He’s in a program where you complete an extra year and come out of school fully licensed in your state. Apparently, there are only about eight or so universities in the USA that offer this kind of program.
He works full-time during the summer and part-time during the school year at a local architecture firm in our home city. He’s been there since the second year of his first 4-year degree and currently makes $23/hour.
Now, he has that 4-year degree and roughly 5 years of experience under his belt. Unfortunately, the firm he’s at is very small and has a hostile work environment. There’s no HR department — not even outsourced. He and some of his coworkers have told me about multiple situations involving micro-racism and even borderline sexual harassment, yet nothing ever gets done about it.
One of the owners treats him as a “younger version of himself” and constantly holds him to higher standards. He’s scrutinized and criticized constantly, often for things that aren’t even his fault. It’s been killing his mental health, and for years now I’ve tried to convince him to look for work elsewhere.
He says he can’t, because:
* The architecture industry gossips a lot, and he’s afraid of being blacklisted locally.
* He doesn’t think he’ll find another position paying $23/hour, even with his degree and experience.
* His current job is very flexible with his school schedule (he sometimes needs unexpected time off for big projects or assignments). He doesn’t think he will find another form that is as last minute flexible with scheduling as his current workplace is.
We rely on his income to split rent and bills 50/50 — and honestly, I can’t afford to take on more right now in this economy, or I would.
This firm is his first job out of highschool and in the architecture field. I work in insurance, and I’ve tried to tell him this isn’t normal corporate behavior — even if architecture is different, their workplace culture sounds insane.
Despite everything, he’s often the one leading projects, correcting coworkers’ mistakes, and acting like a leader, even though he’s treated poorly. It’s incredibly frustrating to see him go through this and feel trapped.
Please, does anyone in architecture have advice? Are there any remote or part-time positions that could be as flexible as his current one? Am I wrong — is he truly stuck at this firm until he graduates?
We’re located in Georgia (GA).
My fiancé of 5 years is currently in his master’s program to get licensed. He’s in a program where you complete an extra year and come out of school fully licensed in your state. Apparently, there are only about eight or so universities in the USA that offer this kind of program.
He works full-time during the summer and part-time during the school year at a local architecture firm in our home city. He’s been there since the second year of his first 4-year degree and currently makes $23/hour.
Now, he has that 4-year degree and roughly 5 years of experience under his belt. Unfortunately, the firm he’s at is very small and has a hostile work environment. There’s no HR department — not even outsourced. He and some of his coworkers have told me about multiple situations involving micro-racism and even borderline sexual harassment, yet nothing ever gets done about it.
One of the owners treats him as a “younger version of himself” and constantly holds him to higher standards. He’s scrutinized and criticized constantly, often for things that aren’t even his fault. It’s been killing his mental health, and for years now I’ve tried to convince him to look for work elsewhere.
He says he can’t, because:
The architecture industry gossips a lot, and he’s afraid of being blacklisted locally.
He doesn’t think he’ll find another position paying $23/hour, even with his degree and experience.
His current job is very flexible with his school schedule (he sometimes needs unexpected time off for big projects or assignments). He doesn’t think he will find another form that is as last minute flexible with scheduling as his current workplace is.
We rely on his income to split rent and bills 50/50 — and honestly, I can’t afford to take on more right now in this economy, or I would.
This firm is his first job out of highschool and in the architecture field. I work in insurance, and I’ve tried to tell him this isn’t normal corporate behavior — even if architecture is different, their workplace culture sounds insane.
Despite everything, he’s often the one leading projects, correcting coworkers’ mistakes, and acting like a leader, even though he’s treated poorly. It’s incredibly frustrating to see him go through this and feel trapped.
Please, does anyone in architecture have advice? Are there any remote or part-time positions that could be as flexible as his current one? Am I wrong — is he truly stuck at this firm until he graduates?
We’re located in Georgia (GA).
