Choose your path.

You just graduated from college. You received your diploma in architectural technology. Now, two main choices are before you. You can continue to learn about your field of study at a university, or you can find a full time job since you are officially an architectural technician.

Choice 1 : Go to a university.

Choice 2 : Go to work.

Go to a university.

You choose to go to a university to deepen your knowledge. Your degree in Architectural technology gave you many basic skills related to many careers that are not pure architecture. You can go at the Higher Technology School (HTS, or ÉTS in French) to become an engineer, or you can go to the Montreal Unversity to become an architect.

Choice 1 : Go to the HTS.

Choice 2 : Go to Montreal University.

Go to work.

You decide that you don't want to study anymore. You want to apply your knowledge in the real wold after all those years of theory. Your diploma is opening a lot of career paths before you. After reviewing all possibilities, you end up with two choices that seem interesting. Becoming an architectural technician is the most obvious path for you, but you also can become a building inspector.

Choice 1 : Work as architectural technician.

Choice 2 : Work as an inspector.

Go to the HTS.

You get into the Higher Techonology School as one of the few architectural technicians just like you. You even recognize some people from your college. The first few classes were manageable, since you already learned the basics, but it began to be more and more difficult to keep up. Some classes seem too difficult even after the help of your teacher and classmates.

Choice 1 : Push through difficult classes.

Choice 2 : Give up on becoming an engeneer.

Go for a Master's degree.

You decide to obtain the degree. After some difficult times, you manage to get it. Your friends and family are proud of your accomplishments. Now, you can go your two years as an intern architect, after which you'll do the test to be part of the Architect Order. The place where you worked as an architectural technician intern gives you the place as an architect intern with a raise. Choosing the degree was a beneficial choice.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Go to Montreal University.

You decide to go to the Montreal University to become an architect. The courses at the university are quite similar to the courses you took in college, so you passed every one with relative ease. In parallel of studying, you found an internship as an architectural technician. You really like working at your bureau, but want to keep studying at the university to eventually become an architect. Should you obtain your baccalaureate diploma and go to work or pursue a Master's degree?

Choice 1 : Go for a Master's degree.

Choice 2 : Don't go for a Master's degree.

Work as a building inspector.

After reviewing all jobs that your diploma offer you, you chose to become a building inspector. You managed to get a job in a popular bureau with known architects and technicians. You already did a few inspections on buildings that had to be renovated by the bureau. Today, you are going to inspect an old building that will be transformed into a community center. Sadly, you have to go there alone, since your colleague had a family emergency. The building is quite large, is it worth it to try to inspect everything alone?

Choice 1 : Inspect the building thoroughly.

Choice 2 : Do a superficial inspection.

Take the necklace.

You decide to take the necklace for yourself. The owner didn't often enter this room, so the lost necklace may not be even noticed. You spend a few more minutes looking at the jewel before putting it in your pocket. You continue doing your inspection, but the gold necklace and the possibilities that it offers if sold are overwhelming you. You finish your inspection report and bring it to the project manager the next day. They frown after flipping a few pages of the report. Your lack of concentration led to a non-pofessionnal report that make little sense. A few days after this situation with the manager, you were fired since the owner of the inspected building noticed the missing necklace. Now, you have to go to court for theft. Maybe, it was better to leave that jewel alone.

Choice 1 : Inspect the building thoroughly.

Push through difficult classes.

You persevered through the most difficult classes. You discovered that they weren't so bad after all. You completed the first few sessions in the HTS, and now it is time to choose what you will specialize in, since you want to expand your knowledge.

Choice 1 : Branch specializing on environment.

Choice 2 : Branch specializing on buildings.

Give up on becoming an engeneer.

Classes at the HTS overwhelmed you. You could keep up with work and with the lead of information that was given to you each class. You decide to seek for your true path that would fill you with passion for your work.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Don't go for a Master's degree.

You decide to not pursue the degree. You take your baccalaureate diploma and decide to work a full time job.

Choice 1 : Go to work.

Branch specializing on environment.

You choose to specialize in environment. You and a few of your friends started specific classes, and you loved them. You graduated with honors and became part of the Engineer Order since the internships you did during your studies counted as work experience. You worked on different projects that directly impacted the environment. You were even called for a conference about your field of work. You are sure that you will like working as an environment engineer until your retirement.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

NOTHING.

.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Branch specializing on buildings.

You choose to specialize in building engineering. Some classes were difficult because of new and more precise terminology. You and your friends helped each other, and finally graduated. You became a member of the Engineer Order and found a job that you liked from the first days. Now, you are making beautiful and complicated projects that impress people that walk by the buildings made by you. You don't think that your efforts' outcome could be better.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

NOTHING2.

.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Work as architectural technician.

You got a job as an architectural technician at a small bureau. Your tasks are to do plans of the current project on a software program called Revit. Since you are very familiar with it due to using it during your studies at college, you did the first floor plan quite fast. After seeing your ease, a new worker, just like you, approached you shyly. They asked you if you would be willing to help them with the third floor plan since they don't want to disturb other workers who seem to have already too many things to do.

Choice 1 : Accept to help.

Choice 2 : Refuse to help.

Refuse to help.

You politely decline to help, since you saw the same expression on your colleague in college when they wanted you to do their work for them. You direct your coworker towards other more experienced workers, so they could ask help. You don't react to her manipulations and keep doing your assigned work. In a few days, you notice that the said coworker had successfully manipulated another young worker to do their job. You secretly talk about this with the most experienced architect in the bureau, and he says that he will handle it. You protected a coworker from manipulation and received a raise for your fast work.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Accept to help.

You decide to accept to help your colleague. You helped them one time, then a second time and another... You are glad to help, but you start to feel more and more exhausted. You are feeling like you are doing the double of the work. Each time that you try to refuse, your coworker uses compliments and sad faces to guilt you into doing their work. One day, the project manager stormed in the office with an angry face and walked to you. He said that the work you did, had many errors that could cost lives if they stay in the project documentation. You look at the work and recognize the work of your coworker that you did for them. You tried to explain yourself, but the manager just said that you had to do only the parts assigned to you. Now, you have to redo the work that wasn't even yours in the first place.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Leave the necklace.

You decide to leave the neckalace where you found it. This golden jewlery isn't worth losing your job over even if it is beautiful and may cost a big sum of money. You keep walking through the building and inspecting it carefully. Since you were so concetrated on your work, ypou were able to notice a small, but important detail on one the the supporting walls. There was a crack that will probably expand fast if nothing is done. You write it down in your report. The next day, you give you report to one of the architect, the project manager. He is impressed by the exeptional quality of your report. You did all this work by yourself and even noticed a crucial detail. You think that you chose the right career path.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.

Inspect the building thoroughly.

The owner of the building isn't present to walk you through their propriety, so you enter the empty edifice. You inspect the building going from floor to floor with your measuring tools. You take photos, measure the walls, make a few drawings and notes. Suddenly, after entering one of the rooms that seem almost untouched, you notice a glow on one of the shelves. It was a beautiful necklace that seemed to be made from gold. You look around, it is clear that no one entered this room for a long time. Would someone notice if you take the necklace?

Choice 1 : Take the necklace.

Choice 2 : Leave the necklace.

Do a superficial inspection.

You decided to do the bare minimum. Your colleague isn't here to help with the inspection and the building is to big for a detailed inspection from one person anyway. You quickly do a few notes about the condition of the building and leave after less than an hour. You spend the rest of your day at home. The next day, you shared your report with your colleague who seems to be exhausted from the day before. In the end, you and your colleague had to return to the building to complete the inspection. It wasn't appreciated by the project manager, since you could have done more during my first visit. You feel that if you don't want to be fired, you will have to do better next time.

Choice 1 : Choose your path.