Without an Architectural Technologist diploma on my resume, people don't even bother calling even though I have 7 years experience at a top arch firm in my industry. The certification also has not helped at all with trying to find a new job since being laid off in March. I spent a good chunk of my first couple years with Google open on one screen and Revit on the other, learning while I worked.

Enter the real world and you quickly find out Revit is a fucking mess and it's all about work arounds if you are building anything other than a house. So of course everything worked the way they described it. All the practise projects I used to learn (from and Autodesk) were very controlled and simple. What I learned felt incredibly basic compared to how Revit was actuslly being used. Starting at the job, I felt completely unprepared with the knowledge I had. I only took the certification because I knew partners of a firm who were looking for a Revit tech and they basically said if I pass I get a job. It was pretty basic stuff for a' profrssional' level, IMO.

The test itself I found pretty easy, but the questions were mostly useless things like 'how many different ways can you open a Rvt file?“. The content from Autodesk was garbage, so I just watched all the vids and then took the test.

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