Props to Land+Living for pointing us--on this avian flu'd morning, apologies--in the direction of Marty Nemko's US News and World Report story on the best and worst careers. Architect, shockingly, is listed as only "fair."

Many outsiders think this is a terrific, artistic career, but they don't realize how long it takes before an architect gets to design a building. First, there's a five-year bachelor's degree, or a master's. Then there's a three-year internship. After that, many architects in firms must spend years designing building components, such as the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system. Going off on your own may not be a solution. Most people who hire architects are older and reluctant to trust designing their building to a 20- or 30-something.

Of course, so long as they're over thirty, it just all goes swimmingly.

Right?