UK based - fed up
Hi. I need some advice and perhaps some reassurance. I’ve worked in Landscape Architecture for 4 years. My route has been a bit unconventional. I did Geography at University, landed a role as a CAD assistant, then into a Landscape Planning Role and now work for a medium-large size planning outfit as a Landscape Consultant.
My role covers landscape design and planning. I prefer the design side of things but have been somewhat shoehorned into more of a planning role (primarily LVIA).
I’m fed up. My role feels redundant in working at concept stage constantly, rarely having input into actual designs, doing the grunt work of my seniors, and doing bullshit assessments / plans on primarily small schemes battling against a UK planning system endlessly bureaucratic and, in my experience, scared of development. Landscape feels an afterthought, pushed to the side by architects and engineers, internal and external.
I don’t see the output or result of my projects, and instead churn out the work with what feels an increasing lack of respect for the environment, or making places better for people, why I had interest in the job in the first instance.
I am at a cross roads on the brink of starting my chartership. Do I leave the industry, and pivot to another career - how easy is this to do? Or stick it out, perhaps at a different firm, in the hope things will get better?
thanks x