[Porsche-O-Phile]

Quite the opposite actually - like I said, I stay away from residential work for a number of reasons. Mostly I'm involved in big civic, institutional and commercial stuff. Used to do retail but frankly a lot of that isn't much better (glorified residential Type 5 stuff, same lousy contractors and same cheap-ass owner mentality). Glad I'm out of that scene and involved in higher-profile work.

Like I said, there are a fair number of good trades but they're unfortunately outnumbered by schlubs and scheisters - that goes for GCs and for subs.

And FWIW I agree - can't stand dealing with "ivory tower" architects. I much prefer dealing with those who excel at CA - my favorite part of the job actually! That's where stuff actually happens (and where you see all the screw-ups and cover-ups first hand!)