My wife is an architect. That means she designs and oversees the construction of buildings. Real buildings. What she does not do is work in IT.
In order to call herself an architect she went to university for six years and then completed a further year's professional qualifications. What she did not do was go on a course for three days in Ruislip and come out with an ACME/Microsoft Access certificate.
So it is understandable that my wife gets annoyed when people in IT call themselves 'architects' or when hapless PRs refer to a communications system or a circuit board as an example of 'architecture'. What do they think this is? The fucking Matrix?
Stop calling IT workers architects. Stop calling circuit boards architecture and, most importantly, stop referring to any changes to a circuit board as 'architecting'. Then, hopefully, when my wife is a looking for a new job and searches under 'architects', she'll find some jobs she spent seven years qualifying for rather than some rubbish IT jobs with annual salaries significantly higher than both of us earn in two years.
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I agree with you completely man. People from the IT industry have screwed the internet so it is difficult for people genuinely searching for actual/physical/original words architect or architecture have to rummage through a lot of junk!
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