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Yes, working from home is QUITE an advantage. I'm looking into the possibility of that right now. Dragging yourself into an office where you do only what your employer's limited vision deems s/he needs done by you is NOT consucive to inssipiration, creativity, or true innovation. The only exception to this is if you have a boss with as much vision and talent as you, but I know few talented people working for anyone as intelligent or foresighted as they. Usually such employers are in such demand to work for that it can be difficult to get into such a place. Anyways…. you ask what I do. I'm an architect who finds that the media of computer graphics can make creations live that might not come along in "real world" commisssions once but in a blue moon. The needss for architecural creations are vast out there, from backdrops for CD games, to virtual envirnments, to motion picture sets (which happens to be a great love of mine). In college, I was always a bit of an architectural vissionary, extrapolating designs from stories and hypothetical circumstance, imagining what sociological, technological and economic factors might come into play in such built environments. Studying the history of architecture in this world has been quite fascinating… looking at what comes from what soceities, and what forces shaped them – from the religious power in medieval times that erected great cathedrals while the vernacular of the people was quite inpovrished, to the search for metaphysical order that lead to the great Greek orders, to the slave society of the Egyptians that made pyrmids possible before Europeans began forging metal. What lies in sstore for the future? What about societies of our technological level that just happened to take a different ethical or economic turn? What would we build if our technology were applied to the cuilt envirnment with the ecnomic conviction of the Gothic Cathedrals…? THESE are the things I wish to explore on the comptuer via graphics and modeling. The challenge is getting to the point where I can spend enough time on these things without having to do womething else completely unrelated just to make money. Nonetheless, it's coming, hence my interest in games and movie sets… Thanx for the interest!