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Dear friends,

World affairs have deteriorated - especially for architects.

The war on terrorism is about to alter the face of the universe.

Previously existing conditions are being exacerbated.

Fun is being eradicated.

Here are some agendas for change...just consider !!!

Agenda Nr. 1: "Cold-Turkey"

1) Quit being an architect.

2) Get a simple job instead, like a cafe owner, waiter, fisherman, exporter of fine woven fabrics...etc.

3) Stop being ambitious, because in the end...who cares?

4) Just see that you are healthy and happy...whether in Hong Kong, Sydney, London or say Chicago, or wherever else you fancy.

5) Just spend as much time in leisure as possible and do not ever enter any arm-twisting corporate office.

6) Enjoy the fact of not having to spend the entire day arguing with clients or be behind a desk, a drafting board or a computer with a CAD system....those just give you spinal problems. Once you've developed those, you will regret this corporate stuff in a flash.

7) Go fishing all day and tan while sitting next to your girlfriend

8) Make your money the simple way and continuously enjoy what others are hungry to see for 11 months each year at least.

Agenda Nr. 2: "Brownie-Points"

1) Do get a job as an architect in one of the high-flying design offices.

2) Get a new suit and wear it with a necktie on a white starched shirt.

3) Be ever ready and available to be abused by your superiors...and manage to keep smiling especially whilst being abused. It will qualify you for a promotion !

4) Manage yourself thru each and every working day of the week without suffocating in this mess of utter carelessness, realizing that anyone you're working for (or with) is just out to cut your throat in order to throw you to the wolves.

5) Manage yourself behind an office desk without developing varicose veins in your legs....those give you blood clots

6) Go home on each and every day in the week, way and beyond after 9 p.m., just so you qualify for keeping your job at which you have to even keep smiling especially whilst being screwed by your superiors. It makes you very "corporate".

7) Do this (6) and hope that your wife, girlfriend or spouse still recognizes you....and without braking lose from you ... perhaps even taking off with someone else (like your boss who was able to take long and hefty lunch breaks while he did put you to work big time).

8) Live like this and manage not to get the feeling of having missed out on the good, true and real life while you were still active, handsome and relatively healthy.

Agenda Nr. 3: "Nice'n'Easy"

1) Be an architect with class, sophistication and an air of arrogance.

2) Work in a prestigious office as a design-partner, or someone whose word does count.

3) Get paid well and with an annual bonus package, an expatriate living in some distant land

4) Have a nice home with your wife....and without a mortgage pending over your head.

5) Have an annual vacation in one of the glitzy resorts...perhaps like the ones they have in the South of France.

6) Write articles for fancy architectural magazines and become famous and stuffy because of those...then be artistic.

7) Wear a bow-tie and use expensive Eau de'Toilettes.

8) Wear pleated pants on weekends and let go of the past week's abuses in a snap...like a social genius...always looking ahead positively.

… I am dead serious !!!

Sincerely,

Gerhard Rinkens

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