MY PLAN: Architect in design
My Plan A:
Consider:
❏ What do you enjoy?
❏ What sort of lifestyle do you
want?
❏ What are you good at?
Career Info that I have
discovered…
Consider:
❏ Upsides/downsides of job
❏ Job duties/ responsibilities
❏ Salary range
❏ Future outlook
❏ Lifestyle factors
❏ Advancement opportunities
Name: Yu Na Song
- Drawing (digital, colour pencil, doodling)
- Using my free time to browse artworks of different graphic
designers
- Looking through current design trends
- Exploring different interior design and architecture projects
- Browsing environmental design projects
- travel
- I am good at brainstorming creative ideas
- I would like a flexible lifestyle where I can have my own
personal life as well as a balanced work life
- I would like a creative lifestyle as well where I can explore
different experiences and viewpoints
Duties:
- Consult with clients to determine type, style and purpose of
renovations or new building construction
- Design buildings and develop plans to describe the design
- Prepare sketches and models for clients
- Monitor activities on construction sites to ensure compliance
with specifications
Pros:
- Travel experience allows you to experience different forms of
architecture in person; by visiting, you can feel and analyze
the design and execution
- Highly creative field which can become competitive at times,
but you can unleash your creative side
- Can contribute to society (especially as environmental design
is becoming more important) and result in better city growth
and public spaces that contribute towards a healthy lifestyle
- Always more space to learn and expand knowledge which
brings more challenges; can bring more motivation to grow
and develop
Cons:
- Stress: meeting client requirements, responsibility, long hours
invested on projects
- Negative competition when business and aspects of money-
making come into view
- Barely any social life because majority of the time is spent
working long hours in the studio, reading books, and blogs on
new design techniques
Annual BC provincial median salary
- $70,180
- High: $53.42/hr
- Median: $33.65/hr
- Low: $24.04/hr
Opportunity outlook
- High opportunity occupation
 - ~51.5% new openings from economic growth
- ~48.5% new openings to replace retirement workers

Three employability skills I 1. design skills and knowledge which I obtained from an online
possess that will support my Architecture history course (how to read a plan, common design
plan: techniques, history and evolution of design)

Consider:
❏ Soft and hard Skills required
for position 2. customer service/verbal communication skills which I learned and
❏ Personal attributes practiced through work experience at my dad’s store and at an online
Barista Training Program

3. critical and creative thinking skills which I learn from my past

experiences and obtain from other inspirations and use on my design
projects

Education needed to pursue my Education:

plan: - Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school of architecture
- Master’s degree in architecture may be required
Consider: Training:
❏ Courses/training/ certificates - Completion of 3 year internship under the supervision of a
needed registered architect
❏ Post-secondary - Completion of the architect registration examination
requirements - Registration with the provincial association of architects in the
province of work
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification
may be required
MY BACKUP PLAN: Interior Designer
My Plan B:
Consider:
❏ What do you enjoy?
❏ What sort of lifestyle do you
want?
❏ What are you good at?
Career Info that I have
discovered…
Consider:
❏ Upsides/downsides of job
❏ Job duties/responsibilities
❏ Salary range
❏ Future outlook
❏ Lifestyle factors
❏ Advancement opportunities
Name: Yu Na Song
- Drawing (digital, colour pencil, doodling)
- Using my free time to browse artworks of different graphic
designers
- Looking through current design trends
- Exploring different interior design and architecture projects
- Browsing environmental design projects
- travel
- I am good at brainstorming creative ideas
- I would like a flexible lifestyle where I can have my own
personal life as well as a balanced work life
- I would like a creative lifestyle as well where I can explore
different experiences and viewpoints
Duties:
- Come up with ideas, produce artistic, practical and safe
designs for interior spaces (residential, commercial, etc.)
- Work for architectural firms, interior design firms,
construction companies, hotel and restaurant chains, etc.
Pros:
- Highly creative field which can become competitive at times,
but you can unleash your creative side
- Advancement in the industry relies on each individual
designer (self-employed designers have the power to move
up in the industry with more freedom)
- Interaction opportunities to meet and interact with a variety of
different people
- Travel opportunities if you are an interior designer for certain
retail stores (travel and monitor the design process of each
store opening)
Cons:
- Stress: meeting client requirements, responsibility, long
hours invested on projects
- Most interior designers set their own price so if you are not
well known, it will be hard to earn profit
- Competitive business makes it difficult to keep track of
competitors and ensure clients stay with you
Annual BC Salary:
- $54,226
- High: $34.62/hr
- Median: $26.00/hr
- Low: $19.00/hr
 Job outlook:
- ~39.5% new openings due to economic growth
- ~60.5% new openings in replacement of retiring workers

Three employability skills I 1. design skills and knowledge which I obtained from an online
possess that will support my Architecture history course (how to read a plan, common design
plan: techniques, history and evolution of design)

Consider:
❏ Soft and hard skills required
for position 2. customer service/verbal communication skills which I learned and
❏ Personal attributes practiced through work experience at my dad’s store and at an
online Barista Training Program

3. critical and creative thinking skills which I learn from my past

experiences and obtain from other inspirations and use on my
design projects

Education needed to pursue my Education:

plan: - University degree or college diploma in interior design
- National council for interior design qualification (NCIDQ) may
Consider: be required
❏ Courses/training/certificates - Certification by provincial institute or association
needed
❏ Post-secondary
requirements
 Post-Secondary Option
Plan A - Schools/Training
Name of First Choice School Second Choice School
School: - University of Toronto John H. - University of British Columbia
Daniels Faculty of School of Architecture and
Architecture, Landscape, and Landscape Architecture
Design

Name of Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies Bachelor of Design in Architecture,

Degree or type Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism
of training you
will receive
Example:
Bachelor of
Science

Length of the 2 years 4 years

program - Common courses in design,
Example: 4 history, and technology of
years architecture, landscape
architecture, and urbanism
- After 2 years, students have
the option of focusing on a
more specific stream (Design,
History & Theory, or
Technology) or they can focus
on a course not related to the
study

Price of Tuition $7,700.00 $9,051.00

for the first year

Approx. Cost of $1,000.00 $4,200.00

books/supplies
for the first year

Cost to live in $13,967 including meal plan $5,451.00

Residence

Application Fee $245.00 $71.75

to apply to
program

Application November 13th for first round offers December 1st 2020 (early admission
deadline deadline and consideration for
Example: entrance scholarships)
February, 13th,
2020

Academic - General university admission - General university admission

Requirements requirements requirements
for program - History or Geography at the BC
(pre-requisites) Grade 12 level is encouraged
Other possible - Landscape architect
occupations - Urban design
with this type of - Urban planning
degree - Industrial design
- Graphic design
- Furniture design and
fabrication
- Game design
- Interior design
- Landscape architect
- Urban design
- Urban planning
- Industrial design
- Graphic design
- Furniture design and
fabrication
- Game design

Post-Secondary Option
Plan B - Schools/Training
Name of First Choice School Second Choice School
School: - Ryerson University - University of British Columbia
School of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture

Name of Bachelor in Interior Design Bachelor of Design in Architecture,

Degree or type Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism
of training you
will receive
Example:
Bachelor of
Science

Length of the 4 years 4 years

program
Example: 4
years

Price of Tuition $7,046 - $7,814 $9,051.00

for the first year

Approx. Cost of $1,000.00 $4,200.00

books/supplies
for the first year

Cost to live in $9,100 - $17,850 $5,451.00

Residence

Application Fee $90.00 + $50 supplementary $71.75

to apply to application fee
program
Application February 1st 2021 December 1st 2020 (early admission
deadline deadline and consideration for
Example: entrance scholarships)
February, 13th,
2020

Academic - General university admissions - General university admission

Requirements requirements requirements
for program - One grade 12 course from - History or Geography at the BC
(pre-requisites) visual arts Grade 12 level is encouraged
- Should take physics grade 11
or higher

Other possible - Exhibition design - Landscape architect

occupations - Set design - Urban design
with this type of - Contemporary interior design - Urban planning
degree - Independent consulting firms - Industrial design
- Marketing and promotion and - Graphic design
facility management - Furniture design and
- Film production designer, fabrication
product designer - Game design