Lyric of the Week

Despite the news this morning that we were awarded two new projects, I’m still feeling a little bit nervous about the uncertain future of our firm. At the end of next week one of my colleagues (and our firm’s senior architect) will retire. Last month two of our other architects left the firm (voluntarily) within a week of each other for supposed greener pastures. In December our longest-tenured architect at the firm decided to move on to bigger & better things; and last August one of our Intern Architects (& former classmate of mine) left to go work for his uncle’s architectural firm.

So if you’re keeping track that’s five architects in less than 9 months who have left our firm.

Is there something in the water? Is it the lack of windows in our office? Maybe it’s all the exposed denim insulation in the ceiling?

It could have something to do with the two across-the-board pay cuts we've received in the last year...

Just a thought.

I'm still here, but I have to speculate that I may be next. I can't help but wonder:

"Am I part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease?"

Artist: Coldplay

Song: Clocks

Album: A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)