I'm no longer a software engineer
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holy crap on a cracker - these threads have taken a turn for the ball-less. I'm an EE that writes sw. Period. I do it because I love electronics and have a deathly fear of anything at and over 120V. Do you people even understand the difference between civil engineers and electrical engineers? The civils build targets..... Seriously, the worse thing I ever saw was in the .com boom where anyone who could hack html - and I mean old school - meant the could "do software". Yeah, I said, have fun. Call me when you are serious.....
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've been nearly electrocuted at 230V, hasn't stopped me from working on electrical / electronic projects yet. What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
S u n s h i n e wrote:
What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
I suspect the correct answer is 'carefully'
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I talk with computer in .... language. Before 15 years ago I used binary language, but now a days, the computers get more smarter and some of them can understand C# language also. I basically command to computer to do something. :) :) :)
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some of them can understand C# language also
Well, they can't! :)
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Here is what I get quite often: Them: What do you do for a living? Me: I'm a software programmer. Them: O so you work in IT? Me: Yes you can say that (but far from the truth)
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
Go to Canada. In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer - software or otherwise - unless you join a legal closed shop. Most of the professionals I've met have been idle or thieving, but hey, once you get on with the rules you're untouchable. So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order.:mad:
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
I tried doing that before. I always say I make coffee for the boss/sexytary. :laugh: They don't believe me though. :doh:
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
Funnily enough, I was asked yesterday by the bloke who cleans the toilets if I could come round his house to fix his computer. I said "What's wrong with it" He Said "Everytime I go to Facebook or other sites it doesn't display properly, the logos all blocky and you can't see or do anything" I said " Are you on XP?" He said yes and I told him I don't need to come round.
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Go to Canada. In Canada you can't call yourself an engineer - software or otherwise - unless you join a legal closed shop. Most of the professionals I've met have been idle or thieving, but hey, once you get on with the rules you're untouchable. So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order.:mad:
Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote:
So, while I'm in the UK, I'm an ENGINEER, an ENGINEER by God, not by the grace of a little beadle sticking pins in dolls of free men and dreaming of jackbooted propriety and order
Isn't UK the country that has given us Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Quantity Surveyors and a whole bunch of other certifications? If that isn't regulating trade, what is?
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S u n s h i n e wrote:
What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
I suspect the correct answer is 'carefully'
Or by running it on a very low amperage. I have a device at home (for hairstyling) which makes 200kV.
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I tell people I clean toilets for a living. That way the don't ask me to fix their PCs.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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One time somebody asked me what is my job, I said "I'm a computer programmer." Then he asked, "So, you're a party planner?" :doh: Yeah, from now on, I'll call myself a Software Developer/Engineer.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
I'm a converter...I convert coffee and pizza to code.
Here today gone to Maui...
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The discussion below made me recall - I once told someone I make software and she replied, "Oh so you design stuffed toys?" :doh: From then on I'm a computer programmer if anyone asks, even though only a small fraction of my work is actual programming. No blonde jokes please
It is a crime to call your self a software engineer. Title XXXII Chapter 471.003 No person other than a duly licensed engineer shall practice engineering or use the name or title of “licensed engineer,” “professional engineer,” or any other title, designation, words, letters, abbreviations, or device tending to indicate that such person holds an active license as an engineer in this state.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
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It is a crime to call your self a software engineer. Title XXXII Chapter 471.003 No person other than a duly licensed engineer shall practice engineering or use the name or title of “licensed engineer,” “professional engineer,” or any other title, designation, words, letters, abbreviations, or device tending to indicate that such person holds an active license as an engineer in this state.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
It's pretty much the same in Texas, but I'm a licensed Professional Engineer so it's OK for me. The main problem is that there is no certification category for "Software Engineer," but apparently the Texas PE board is considering adding a certification for that.
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:laugh: Just great! For some reason why I like being a programmer is because people can't mess with me given the fact that they don't know what I'm actually doing. :laugh:
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL. I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
As an engineer, I never have to deal with explaining what I do. So few can understand it that they mostly walk away or change the subject, sorry they asked. :laugh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Them: So what do you do for a living? Me: I'm a programmer. Them: ....Oh...OK. Me: I'm in IT. I work with computers. Them: Oh good. Can you take a look at my computer. It's become slow and sometimes it won't start. True story.
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The real challenge is to find one CP member that this hasn't happened to.
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I've been nearly electrocuted at 230V, hasn't stopped me from working on electrical / electronic projects yet. What I can't understand is how people can work on things running at hundreds of kilovolts.
Talk to Roger Wright, a CP member of long-standing. He builds substations for his local electrical utility for fun.
Software Zen:
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