[Porsche-O-Phile]

Yea, retail architecture is dead as a doornail. I'm kinda' miffed at my former boss for pooh-poohing my concerns about it a year or so ago. I brought up the fact that (I felt) we were overly dependent on retail clients that were sooner or later going to blow up. I suggested health care (specifically) as an area to hedge ourselves into and was told by him that he wasn't interested. Arrogant prick. Personally I think the guy got addicted to the "easy money" that retail design provided when times were good and refused to see the gravy train heading for the cliff. I did actually interview with a couple other firms in the last 12 months but it never was really worth jumping ship in the end... Their client bases weren't a helluva lot better and I'd have been the "new guy" at a different firm if/when things went south, as I suspected they eventually were going to.

The biggest kick in the nads about it is that HE'S not the one who gets screwed for his arrogance and intransigence - it's me and the other people who worked for him. He'll close down or become an "office of one" for a while or whatever and live off his banked money but the rest of us are S.O.L. Blows.

I'm considering a career change too - believe me. But it's also a bit tough when you're almost in your 40s...