Soldato
Wtf?some people are so pretentious about it. You get guys with <Name> (CENG,IET,CIBSE, BENG HONS, HND) and I just think, do you think so little of yourself you need to add all that!
Wtf?some people are so pretentious about it. You get guys with <Name> (CENG,IET,CIBSE, BENG HONS, HND) and I just think, do you think so little of yourself you need to add all that!
Wtf?
We get know respect and our pay reflex this
what sunnyg wrote
I agree fully with the creator of this thread. i am currently doing my civil engineering degree and its ******* hard. So when Vi*gin send and engineer out to drill a hole through my wall and plug a wire in it sure as hell ****es me off.
I'm an electrical design engineer (or "proper" engineer by your logic) I couldn't care less who calls themselves an engineer. I enjoy my work as its very challenging, i get paid well for it, who cares about anyone else. Half the time I dont even use an email signature as some people are so pretentious about it. You get guys with <Name> (CENG,IET,CIBSE, BENG HONS, HND) and I just think, do you think so little of yourself you need to add all that!
If you feel the need to have a title that somehow in your mind puts you above the general public then theres something weird going on.
The most interesting people are those who spend a few years doing an arts degree, have oodles of free time and get to know themselves and spend the entire time interacting with other people. In that time social skills develop. That's why engineers have no social skills in my view, they simply haven't ever had the time to do it.
Being interesting, sociable and amusing is a skill that people learn just like any other, and if you choose to study something like Engineering or Physics unless you can do that without it taking up your time you'll never be cool.
Which would require some sort of qualification at some point to hold such a position, HND, BTEC etc.
And you will only get an engineering position of responsibility with a degree, at least Masters level.
Pretty much any institute will have a means of gaining CEng status for candidates without the required education.And what institutes would they be then that will charter/CEng someone who has no qualifications.
See you think engineers are boring/lack social skills but I have generally found that people doing arts degrees tend to be pretentious people that think they are interesting and intelligent and are usually neither. The strange thing is that both people are creative in nature, the engineer has to be creative to come up with inventive solutions to problems or openings in the market through use of mathematics, science, finance, project management etc. The arty natured person just needs to be full of enough BS to convince other people their work is worthwhile.
IMO they tend to be despiseable people second only to social scientists.
IMO they tend to be despiseable people second only to social scientists.
Pretty much any institute will have a means of gaining CEng status for candidates without the required education.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7902256.stm
An unemployed engineer has turned himself into a human advertising hoarding in a bid to find work.
He straps on a board saying "Mechanical Maintenance Engineer Seeks Employment" along with his mobile phone number.