JPG40504 wrote:I assume you are not about to need road building/mining/oil drilling expertise etc. so I will leave those injuneers out of this discussion.
My father is an electrical engineer (31 years and counting) and I remember when they started calling garbage men "sanitation engineers". He pissed and moaned about that for years
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joshh wrote:My father is an electrical engineer (31 years and counting) and I remember when they started calling garbage men "sanitation engineers". He pissed and moaned about that for years
Maintenance engineers also!
I just consider the source, smile condescendingly, and continue my life!:D
Do realize these asinine job titles are dreamed up by individuals not accustomed to the rigors of precise thinking that is a prerequisite for becoming an engineer. Need I elaborate by revealing their job title!;)
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JPG40504 wrote:
Do realize these asinine job titles are dreamed up by individuals not accustomed to the rigors of precise thinking that is a prerequisite for becoming an engineer.
[quote="BuckeyeDennis"]Implying that engineers are born, not made? ]
No. Mental discipline is an acquired trait.
Idiots are born!
Mental dwarfs are born.
Stupidity is a sloppy thinking habit.
Some engineers are not immune.(sad to say!)
Some engineers become managers.
Get the drift?:D
Breakin several logic rules here!;) Intentionally!:p
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