When I was a little kid the only kind of engineers I knew of operated the throttles and brakes on trains. My uncle owned a company which repaired the electric motor on tugboats and drawbridges. At some point I learned he was an electrical engineer. Later I went to school to become a mechanical engineer and ended up working for a computer company working on digital electronic circuits. This was before microprocessors were invented. So . . . What's an engineer? I'll be interested to find out. Tom On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 20:20 +0100, Gescape wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 21:40 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > Once, long ago--actually, on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:50:17PM CDT--mark (m.roth@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > > Gads, but the word "engineer" is horribly overused. > > > > True. > > > > > Fun facts: Calling yourself an engineer while not being a licensed > > > professional engineer is potentially illegal, as well as can get you in > > > deep kim che for misrepresentation. > > > > Depends on what you're using it as. If you're trying to get a position > > that requires a PE, maybe. Otherwise, I doubt it. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Dave Ihnat > > ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Agree. I recently passed RHCE. Does it make me an engineer? Hmm... I > believe it depends on the point of view. Reality is it does not matter > what's on a paper. What matters really is if you can do your job really > well so the others can say "He/she really knows how to do/fix it." > I can master one technology and has no clue about the other. Am I an > engineer or not? I can pass the exam and forget most of it in 6 months. > Will I be still an engineer? ;-) > > Regards, > Grzeg > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
