2026 HSC CHAT (8 Viewers)

[qweeosh]

omg thanks!!! I wanted to do architecture but my parents think that you'll have to travel overseas and they think it's not safe. But lowkey my parents are still gonna find a way to say no but hopefully this will persuade them

How would you travel oversees to study architecture? I would understand after grad for a job but you would be an adult by then.

 

[Bendy Straw]

omg thanks!!! I wanted to do architecture but my parents think that you'll have to travel overseas and they think it's not safe. But lowkey my parents are still gonna find a way to say no but hopefully this will persuade them

honestly i say go for it. architecture is a pretty secure job in my opinion (theres always something that needs designing. houses, shopping centres, stores, public buildings, etc) and its a great marriage of mathematical and artistic principles. i have heard that the uni courses are tough, but a small price to pay for job security, my friend

 

[Study to success]

honestly i say go for it. architecture is a pretty secure job in my opinion (theres always something that needs designing. houses, shopping centres, stores, public buildings, etc) and its a great marriage of mathematical and artistic principles. i have heard that the uni courses are tough, but a small price to pay for job security, my friend

my parents just think it's stressful and they don't want me traveling. and it pmo cause it doesn't mean if one article on google says that u have to travel overseas doesn't mean u always do and plus traveling isn't that unsafe

 

[qweeosh]

my parents just think it's stressful and they don't want me traveling. and it pmo cause it doesn't mean if one article on google says that u have to travel overseas doesn't mean u always do and plus traveling isn't that unsafe

did your parents think that you would be travelling to a dangerous country to build infrastructure or something Because from my understanding, most architects only need to travel to relatively safe countries.

 

[Study to success]

did your parents think that you would be travelling to a dangerous country to build infrastructure or something Because from my understanding, most architects only need to travel to relatively safe countries.

ik but they think it's dangerous for me as a girl to travel overseas. Even if it's a safe country. If my brother wanted to do architecture they would be fine and that's how sexist they are

 

[qweeosh]

ik but they think it's dangerous for me as a girl to travel overseas. Even if it's a safe country. If my brother wanted to do architecture they would be fine and that's how sexist they are

.... Chinese parents?

 

[Study to success]

.... Chinese parents?

yep how did u know

 

[qweeosh]

yep how did u know

heh I have my ways (jk, I knew your mum was chinese but the whole thinking of both is really just a symptom of our community bcs i've heard the same bs from other chinese people)

 

[spiderlemonade]

omg thanks!!! I wanted to do architecture but my parents think that you'll have to travel overseas and they think it's not safe. But lowkey my parents are still gonna find a way to say no but hopefully this will persuade them

real my parents are like that too(asian )

 

[its_ace21]

omg thanks!!! I wanted to do architecture but my parents think that you'll have to travel overseas and they think it's not safe. But lowkey my parents are still gonna find a way to say no but hopefully this will persuade them

When I told my parents I was slightly interested in architecture in year 11 they said no because it’s a “m*ns job”

 

[jane1820]

When I told my parents I was slightly interested in architecture in year 11 they said no because it’s a “m*ns job”

my parents actually dont care what career/degree i do (even if its male dominated eg plumbing) as long as i am guranteed a job and an income lmaooo

 

[No_Kaeya?!]

my parents actually dont care what career/degree i do (even if its male dominated eg plumbing) as long as i am guranteed a job and an income lmaooo

they just want me to be successful LOL

 

[No_Kaeya?!]

they just want me to be successful LOL

I don't think they care lol. Like oh, you have a good job? it pays well? it's Asian parent worthy? ok thats it go forth child

 

[hi_998]

my parents said do wahtever makes me happy, even if that means becoming a zookeeper

 

[tigerian]

When I told my parents I was slightly interested in architecture in year 11 they said no because it’s a “m*ns job”

you can tell yout parents that there is no such thing as a “m*ns job and that centre point tower was designed by a woman

 

[tigerian]

When I told my parents I was slightly interested in architecture in year 11 they said no because it’s a “m*ns job”

ask them to explain how this happened

One of the world’s best known female architects of the modern era, Marion Mahony Griffin, is said to have spent her life making husband Walter Burley Griffin look good. Today, women across the industry prefer to receive due credit.
While there is still a disparity between the number of female architecture graduates and those who end up in senior roles, Australia has enough fine examples to give the next generation hope.

Most of these women feature on Marion’s List, a relatively new public register of women in architecture set up by Parlour, the industry’s non-profit advocate for equity and diversity.
Twenty of the best feature in Maven Publishing’s Chasing the Sky, 20 Stories of Women in Architecture, including Clare Cousins, national president of the Australian Institute of Architects (one of five women on the board), Kerstin Thompson – who was this year named a life fellow at the AIA for both her architecture and her impact on industry and education – Rachel Nolan of Kennedy Nolan, and Virginia Kerridge and Hannah Tribe.

 

[Study to success]

some parents are just sexist and they just have this discriminatory mindset towards women doing certain jobs and are too stubborn to let other people change their views

 

[jane1820]

tigerian is such a baddie for this

 

[tigerian]

tigerian is such a baddie for this

im just telling it it as it is . Besideswait till you are 18 and the decision is yours whether your parents like it or not

 

[Study to success]

im just telling it it as it is . Besideswait till you are 18 and the decision is yours whether your parents like it or not

Well for some people it’s not because some parents decide to still control/ coerce their children even after 18