Working in a small firm is really beneficial and u’d get to learn more in that. But these day there are very few firms working manually and that too with direct implication on site…see up to some extent its fine but u lose quite a lot of learning wen u directly try to implicate things on site…like…wen u will make drawing u will realize the mistakes and other aspects which is good to know at that point rather then discovering that on site…
i think your idea of working in a small firm is good but drawings and conceptualizing is our language please don’t try to omit that…