Interview an architect or engineer?

My name is Asia [Oxon Hill High sophomore] my architects for my interview bailed at the last minute, so it would be real helpful if an architect or engineer [preferably in the dc area]could briefly answer the following questons.

1.What is your job title?

2.What exactly do you do?

3.Can you describe a normal day at your job?

4.How are your working conditions?

5.If it鈥檚 not too personal, what鈥檚 your salary, or how much do others in your profession make on average?

6.What got you interested in your career?

7.What are some of the key courses you took in high school and college to help you with your job?

8.What other training/qualifications are needed?

9.Are you eligible for advancement/promotions in your career?

10.Is math and physics for your job as important as it is said to be?_architects

11.What other careers/jobs are comparable to yours?

12.Are you happy with your job? If not, what would you prefer to do.

plz include an email

I don't have a lot of time, you know, cause I'm and Architect and an Engineer but I'll try.
I own the company and am a licensed civil engineer. This license allows me to practice Architecture as well.
I design houses and do all of the structural analysis to make sure that they stand up. I sit at my desk in front of a computer all day. In a good year I make 170,000, bad year 144,000.

I took math and art classes and got a four year college degree. Its a great career to be self employed in. Math is important up to the geometry and some trig level. Physics is importand to do engineering.

It's a great job and I love to see my creations built and lived in.

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I was a software engineer. I will answer as if I still were, okay?

1. Software Engineer II
2. I sit at a desk and program a computer in the C and C++ programming languages.
3. See (2) above. Between programming, I test what I did.
4. I sit at a nice comfy desk, in a nice warm office. Not too shabby!
5. Um, hm, 60K - 72K / year.
6. I wanted to be a biologist, and didn't make it! I was active on the Commodore 64 BBSs, and got noticed by someone who called me up and hired me to program a game.
7. I was mostly self-taught. I did take some courses in
C
8086 assembly language
CoBOL, ForTran, Pascal.
8. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science would have been nice. Most of my co-workers had those.
9. I spent some time as a Software Engineer III. It came with a nice raise, but the workload was killer! I took a demotion back to Software Engineer II, and was much happier.
10. Used both! Lots of math and physics in computer game programming.
11. Other jobs in computer programming. Computer Programmer II, Systems Analyst, etc.
12. I'd like to be a Software Engineer II again. It was fun most of the time. But, time marches on, and the company I was working for wasn't doing games for the Gameboy Color any more. LOL.
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