This vision is out of touch with reality. Unless you are literally Corbu, employers don't care that much about your special snowflake design skills. You need actual hard work to surround the art and the inspiration. And Revit happens to be the biggest tool used in architecture at the moment.

A few years ago I got hired as an intern, mostly on the premise that I was very good at Revit and the office needed to transition from CAD. I made sure with my boss that I would also get to do "architect stuff". This way, I am part of the design and production process while still being the BIM expert around.

If you wanted to become a starchitect but got stuck being a BIM monkey, well you might have an ego problem. You think your design skills are so good that being mindful of the technical and practical aspects of architecture is harmful to you.

Maybe you need to stop thinking only about yourself and see what your value to an architecture office is. Then, communicate with your boss to make sure both of you know where you are going.

Ask yourself: What do I actually want to do? What I am really good at? You need to reconcile these two aspects when trying to find the perfect job. Remember that if your are an intern, you are probably bad at almost everything. Being good at Revit might be one of your only asset.

2- REVIT IS NOT A DESIGN TOOL

Typical scenario: Designer builds a Sketchup model. Draft a CAD plan. Make a excel spreadsheet to calculate room areas and estimate cost. What if these 3 steps were combined together? That's the beauty of using Revit as a Design tool: everything is linked together.

These are the most exciting tools to use in design phase:

1- Schedules: Revit schedules can be used for estimation, listing quantities for every elements. They can also be used to calculate areas.

2- Curtain Walls: Such a pain to see colleagues try to model fancy windows or curtain walls using Sketchup. Urgh. Using Curtain Walls in Revit is an incredibly fast and useful way to create not only windows, but also walls with specific patterns.

3- Color Fill Plans: Remember these blocking plans you did in AutoCAD, using polylines to calculate areas? Instead of wasting your time doing that, try Color Fill Plans in Revit. Just enter the right information for your rooms to create these cute and incredibly useful conceptual floor plan views.