Just finishing school is a huge achievement these days!
I know you will find a way to let your talents and abilities shine as a builder/creater! Trust yourself and trust that the process of life will place many good opportunities in your path!
Speaking of creative building, what do you think of these kinds of projects to help solve the housing shortage/homeless problems? Maybe even just as transitional housing?
Rehabbing shipping containers to create affordable studio living quarters?
http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2013/oct/24/brighton-housing-homeless-shipping-containers
Here's a gallery of pictures of the proposed project:
http://www.theguardian.com/housing-...-housing-homeless-shipping-containers-gallery
This article has a video with a slightly more casual/overnight emergency lodging adaptation of the concept:
http://smilingtimes.com/converting-shipping-containers-into-homes-for-the-homless-video/
http://youtu.be/xUMqYSOlpNg
As does this one:
http://youtu.be/_Kz0ADnyw3I
This last take on it reminds me of the many people here in the US who are living in Recreational Vehicles and motor homes in various mobile home parks and campgrounds, etc.
As someone who has worked with, and to improve conditions for homeless people for decades now, this is seen by many here as a good affordable housing option for getting people off the street and out of shelters.
To make tiny homes out of the cargo containers, and then cluster them together with a manager's office, a modest community center having a community kitchen and common meeting or recreational space, laundry facilities, etc. is very similar to creating a fixed (on a foundation) manufactured home park here. Only maybe lots cheaper because they can be made to be readily moveable and reconfigured into cluster of various sizes, even stacked vertically to a degree, depending on need and available resources. Converting unused cargo containers might just be a more affordable option for communities to build more affordable housing to meet their federal mandates, and/or to provide compassion help during extreme weather, etc? What do you think?
To accept Federal anti-poverty dollars, most communities of a certain size must provide some kind of cold weather shelter options for the indigent and homeless. Often this is just warehousing people on cots in an old industrial type building, very substandard housing even for a temporary solution.
Most people in need avoid going to these kinds of shelters after having very negative experiences there (being robbed, beaten, raped, etc.)
I think when done well, this creative conversion of shipping containers could provide a viable and affordable solution.