>> Andy Lang, I own Lang Lighting Design.
It's in Dallas, Texas and I've owned that company since 1994.
What a lighting designer does is the same thing as an architect does but we just do one segment
of a building so we do interior lighting, exterior lighting, landscape lighting,
building lighting and all that kind of stuff.
So we're a part of that design team.
We just do that segment of the building.
My office is here in Dallas and we have a company of six people so everybody
in that company's part of the design staff so we do a lot
of very high-end international resort work and a lot of high end residential work.
So the daily day which is probably more than eight hours and they make you know
that in design school too because in design school they make it very difficult so they want
to know who's really going to be prepared to work in this field.
Normal day is just assigning what work is happening that week because what's different
about what we do versus being in a stated architectural office is that when I first came
to Dallas I worked at an architectural office.
I wasn't in lighting.
So I went straight into the architecture, got my license and probably worked on one large job
for about a 12 to 24 month period I worked on one project.
Now we work on probably six or eight or more projects a week, so depending on what's going
on with the job we could be doing something on a project that's under construction.
We could be going to meetings that a project just starts
or we could be doing the design work at our office.