ARCHITECTURAL INTERNS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!!You don't have to work a pittance for anybody!
All the work you do is the backbone of any firm's business. If YOU don't produce those working drawings (however simple, brainless or mind-numbing they are) then NO ONE will.
No contractor will make a building from concept sketches that your employers give them. YOU decide how much money your employer makes.
It is your right to demand good salaries for yourself. i know firms that make crores of rupees in profit every year because they hire only interns.
The 1500 bucks you get every month does not even cover travel costs. It is a great privilege to work with Charles Correa, but if he doesn't respect your value to his firm, then it's of no use.
If every single intern in the country decides, "I will not work for less than Rs. 7500 a month" every architectural firm in the country will either fall in line or shut down. If engineering graduates get 20,000 bucks a month the minute they finish a crappy 4-year course (and then get paid the same amount for a 6-month 'training' period), then we deserve at least half of that.
And everytime i hear architects say "We used to get 500 bucks a month when we were your age," i feel like hitting them with their T-squares.
The image and the text: Ironic, no?
To the ones who get bored with long posts: HAPPY????????
And i take my words back. i will let my posts go longer than 20 words!
14 comments:
this comment comes from someone who's never interned before:
doesn't it matter that you would learn a lot from your internship... isn't that more important than your first pay packet?
eventually of course, the weight of the pay packet also becomes important.. but is it essential to start off like that?
does that mean that if ur earning big bucks ur never learning anything? is the 20,000 rupees a month pay packet a hurdle for engineers during their training periods in whichever company?
it's not like ur employer takes time off his/her work to "teach" u or cancel client meetings because "my intern needs to be nurtured and taught". he/she is deriving more benefit from you and not vice versa. and im not asking for the moon. considering the volume of work interns do in architectural firms, they ought to be treated as contributers to the firm and get paid suitably.
me abs with siddharth......aparna u wil kno once u wrk in a firm.....theres some basic value that u r worth...nwys.. u wil defi kno once u enter office....
wts makes archi th best course among all ??? atleast as compared to archi, why is engg crappy ??
Don't mind me much, but I'm kinda annoyed with this "this comment comes from someone who's never interned before:", considering Sid's work background. Anyway, I agree, we need more pay. But, you know, an architect looses a lot of money because one singe project goes from architect to intern to draughtsman (sometimes), to structural engineer to contractor to head mason to labourer to client... Lots of middle-men who need payment. Whereas an engineer's job has minimum middle-men. The client in both cases either pay the same amount or little +/-. That's where all OUR paisa is going...
And since you aren't adhering to the 20 sentence limit, I take full liberty in increasing comment size also :DD
i thnk aparna meant that SHE hasn't had any interning experience. and wat do u mean there are no middlemen in engg? i wud think there r more, and the 5% an architect gets as fees are more than enuf to sustain interns at a better payscale and still manage to live a lavish lifestyle.
i can point to many examples even among our college faculty where ppl earn loads but rarely bother to pay well.
and i didnt say archi was the best course or nething, in fact any course in mumbai unviersity is years behind reality and rarely catches up.
and a new post now please!
try articulating that argument, and why dont u try presenting it to ur director or atleast in a students GBM, do something. Dont just rant bout the world on ur blog.
hehehehe what is the blog for then??
but i agree with mukul, new post please! this is a boring arguement... in which tapan has got an unneccessary twist just to sensationalise it or whatever
pulls out my minidrafter ,since im an engineer :P ,and brandishes it
kya bola re???????
who is this anonymous berating me for writing on my blog???
so, on an average, how much does an intern get paid?? i have no idea... what are the figures?
depends
my class varied from one big 'thank you' card from hallmark to 13,000 bux plus perks.
average was bout 2500 i think
if u finish 5th yr then u get paid slightly better i thnk.. somethn like 4 grand or so
and, is the pay dependant more on the commercial success of the firm or more on the value credited to an intern?
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