As a planner you will be in the thick of such debates. As societies get richer, environmental quality becomes more of an issue. This tends to increase the demand for professional advice on development issues. So the job outlook for planners is basically bright. Mostly, planning is about gathering information on particular issues, checking the views of relevant persons and organisations, assessing and analysing situations, summarising the pros and cons of proposals, and preparing reports and recommendations.
Planners tend to spend a lot of their time on the telephone, or making site visits, or in meetings.
On the whole they don't spend their time sitting at a drawing board. UNE's 1999 Graduate Destination Survey found that more than 90 per cent of the previous year's graduates in urban and regional planning were in full time employment as planners. An outstanding result. Dani will be working late tonight. She has a report to finish.