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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: New Discussion (first meetings)
Message-ID: <9039@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 14:33:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 14:33:26 1986
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In article <1777@hammer.UUCP> tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <446@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>
>>If you are a programmer who is practicing engineering while programming,
>>by all means call yourself an engineer.
>
>The problem with this is that you will make the people who have gone
>to the pain of getting an engineering degree mad at you.  (Would
>you go to someone who calls him/herself a "doctor", but wasn't?)

As a holder of an engineering degree from MIT, I'd have to say that
I've met some surprisingly ignorant/dumb "engineers" with engineering
degrees. I've also met some smart non-degreed engineers. I'll save my
getting mad for the incompetents, regardless of what kind of paper
they hold.

I'm not sure the same problem doesn't hold for doctors too.
(incompetents who have managed to get certified)
-- 
 If you are seen fixing something, you will be asked to fix it
 every time it breaks from then on. 

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