Is getting fired a stain on your career in architecture?
Everyone has always told me that architecture is a small world and word spreads. I’ve been at my second arch job for a little over a year and a half. I’ve tried hard to work hard but I keep getting marks on my drawings and we are required to make manufacturing extraction documents and I always miss one thing. I’ve made checklists and overall improved my accuracy but it’s never 100% perfect and I’ve been told by my a manger anything less than 100% is unacceptable. The company is a door manufacturer and has an in house arch team. It was the only job I could get at the moment. The work is boring and I feel I’m stagnating in my other skills. But I worry my bad performance at this job will taint my other chances and I’ll be blackballed out the industry because I can’t measure up. I don’t know what else to do. I feel helpless and I’m starting to have mental health issues. If you can’t make it early on in your career is there no hope? Should I give up? Will I permanently have a bad reputation?