Quoted for truth.
If you know how to drive why limit your employment opportunities to just driving a bus?
There are other industries where the demand for skills in hyper imagery would be more valuable where interaction is a must where a game engine like UE4 could do things that are not already well established. With ArchVis it’s about 1 client and once satisfied the work can be discarded.
An area where skills in vis would be a marketable skill would be in the medical profession. With interaction and VR the next big thing surgical simulators could be made that can accurately represent a surgical procedure for students to practice on.
The employment opportunity is based on how many people make use of your work as a product onto it’s self and ArchVis is limited as to the needs of the one client and once satisfied goes onto the demo reel if not deleted because the storage space is more valuable.
Good advice, I worked at WDI designing theme parks and 15 years ago they were using simulators to design rides. Also, the medical field has more cash than the Architecture field so that’s a good option too.