An RA is a Registered Architect. A PE is a Professinal Engineer. Architects go through 5 years of school, and aprentice for another 3 years before thet can take the RA exam.
The RA exam is in 8 parts, takes about 8 hours a day for 5 days and almost no one passes it the first time. So after High School, 5 Years College (architecture tuition is usually 1.5X normal tuition), probably 5 years on the job and a grueling exam process, you get to be an RA.
It's also very hard work being a designer, having the technical know-how to but a building together, computer expertise for CAD drafting, and yet be able to cope with unreasonable clients and contractors at the same time.
After all this, RA's usually get paid less than High School drop-outs working in a factory. This is what Wally means by under-paid, and under apreciated. I'm not knocking factory workers, but an 18 year old tightening bolts shouldn't be making twice as much as a 32 year old responsible for multi-million dollar projects, after paying his dues through college and exams. IMHO
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quote:Originally posted by Wally
OMG u're scarying me I thought my boss read my post. One of my boss is a PE and another one is an RA and I'm 4 exams away from becoming an RA myself. RAs are the cheapest pay and most under appreciate professionals out there.......maybe you can compare that to the PT
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Huh? [:I]
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