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Specialties that pay

• Healthcare interiors

  Hospitals and clinics. Heavy code and infection-control requirements, institutional budgets, steady work.

• Workplace and corporate interiors

  The biggest commercial market, and the one furniture dealers hire into.

• Hospitality

  Hotels and restaurants. Glamorous, deadline-driven and cyclical.

• Lighting design

  A specialty of its own with its own credential, and short of people.

• Sustainability credentials

  Green building certification credentials are cheap to get and asked for on public and corporate projects.