P.E.'s and "engineer" angst

[FMCoug]

Who gives a rat's backside what job title anybody else has / uses. I'm not a P.E. nor do I have an engineering degree. But engineer has been in my job title (not by choice ... just my industry) pretty much my whole career.

Who cares? Yet P.E.'s get all bent out of shape. Do MD's care that chiros are called "Doctors"? Or Ph.D's? We could come up with a bunch of other examples.

It's just a word.

[Donuthole]

I get pretty pissed when academic advisors refer to themselves as counselors.

[Mr Incredible]

Who gives a rat's backside what job title anybody else has / uses. I'm not a P.E. nor do I have an engineering degree. But engineer has been in my job title (not by choice ... just my industry) pretty much my whole career.

Who cares? Yet P.E.'s get all bent out of shape. Do MD's care that chiros are called "Doctors"? Or Ph.D's? We could come up with a bunch of other examples.

It's just a word.

I have an engineering degree, but I'm not an engineer. You can have my unused title.

[Moliere]

Who gives a rat's backside what job title anybody else has / uses. I'm not a P.E. nor do I have an engineering degree. But engineer has been in my job title (not by choice ... just my industry) pretty much my whole career.

Who cares? Yet P.E.'s get all bent out of shape. Do MD's care that chiros are called "Doctors"? Or Ph.D's? We could come up with a bunch of other examples.

It's just a word.

Ph.D's have a doctoral degree, thus they get called doctors.

I have a Master's degree so I politely ask people to call me Master.

[Fiyero]

I know a doctor in Memphis who made his wife address him as "doctor." So yes to some it is a big deal.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Doesn't bother me.

But I do get a chuckle out of some of the job titles using the word engineer.

[Mr Incredible]

Ph.D's have a doctoral degree, thus they get called doctors.

I have a Master's degree so I politely ask people to call me Master.

I hope your real last name is Bates.

[DU Ute]

My MOS (Military Occupation Specialty) while I was in the Army was Combat Engineer. We kicked some serious ass and blew a lot of stuff up. It offends me that so many wussy paper pushers have disgraced the proud name of Engineer. I think to properly call oneself an Engineer a person should be required to blow something up.

[FMCoug]

Doesn't bother me.

But I do get a chuckle out of some of the job titles using the word engineer.

I do agree that it's overused, particularly in my industry. But I guess it's a "what's in a name" thing to me. Language evolves.

[Donuthole]

I do agree that it's overused, particularly in my industry. But I guess it's a "what's in a name" thing to me. Language evolves.

Sincerely,

Sweet 'Mexican' Food

[FMCoug]

Sincerely,

Sweet 'Mexican' Food

LOL! I have been pwned.

[beefytee]

I do agree that it's overused, particularly in my industry. But I guess it's a "what's in a name" thing to me. Language evolves.

Is this a case of language evolving? I don't think it is overused. It is just overvalued (by some people).

Engineer (along with engine) has always been a pretty generic term.

Now some group comes along and tries to claim it as their own without any qualifier (i.e. civil, mechanical, electrical, locomotive, software).

It really does seem to parallel the whole "real" doctor thing.

[SoCalCoug]

It kind of bugs me that DDD calls himself a lawyer.

[UteStar]

Do MD's care that chiros are called "Doctors"? Or Ph.D's? We could come up with a bunch of other examples.

It's just a word.

FWIW, almost every doctor that I know finds it laughable that Chiros, etc. are called doctors. And they also find it funny and are bothered when a PhD calls himself a doctor without clarifying it.

[CardiacCoug]

FWIW, almost every doctor that I know finds it laughable that Chiros, etc. are called doctors. And they also find it funny and are bothered when a PhD calls himself a doctor without clarifying it.

I got irrationally annoyed one time when an optometrist referred to his years in "medical school."

I'm not a fan of chiropractors either, but whatever -- they're a type of doctor I suppose. A new trend I have seen recently is for nurse practitioners with PhDs to call themselves doctors -- I think that crosses the line.