What is best way to take? Advice needed
Random advice from the internet.<p>0. I am a registered architect in a US state. If you really want to be an architect in the US, finish the registration process. The process sucks for a lot of people. The end result is as valuable or as worthless as an architect license. But that is the only way to become one.<p>1. I won&#x27;t recommend the architecture business. Some people thrive, some don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s a commodity industry but the only way to do the things architects can do if that&#x27;s what a person really wants to do.<p>I will say that success in building an architecture business is going to correlate with the same ability to build a team that success in building a startup does...i.e. it will be much harder to do it by yourself than with &#x27;cofounders&#x27;.<p>2. 3d visualization is a commodity business. I get emails from companies around the world every day. They look pretty much like the emails that I have been receiving since the 1990&#x27;s.<p>I know people who make a living doing it. They have business relationships that allow them to do it. They have been at it for years. The best one&#x27;s have all the skills that it takes to build a business and above average talent.<p>The nature of architecture is that architects rarely have money for visualization services because clients can find an architect who will provide it &#x27;for free&#x27; within the base fee. When an architect gets a client to pay, they will try to keep the work in house to increase revenue and reduce management requirements. A medium size firm probably has the talent to produce 3d work. The only time they will outsource is if they are swamped.<p>That means developing many many clients to maintain a reasonable backlog. Again that&#x27;s basic business just like architecture or anything else.<p>3. Working on a startup is going to be hard if you don&#x27;t have a social network that connects to people with similar interests.<p>That&#x27;s not to say it cannot be done. The best way to meet people after getting out of school is to get a job interacting with a lot of coworkers.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s advice, but that&#x27;s the landscape I see. If it boils down to one thing, there are much better markets than selling to architects.<p>Good luck.