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Funnily enough my real job is more dull than that - property maintenance/gardening stuff (for the moment) but this week I did some work at a certain person's property...

 

Only Nicola Cortese's place in Chilworth (or is it Franny's?)!!! Very nice pad it is too.

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Electrical Installation Engineer. Still doesn't sound as interesting as some of the above.

 

do you mind if I ask what your qualifications are? As I have never heard of an Electrical Installation Engineer............

 

No offence intended (and I rather not get on my soapbox..as I don't know you personally) but I have never heard of an Electrical Installation Engineer (please enlighten me).

I have worked with electricians, instrument technicians and Electrical Engineers (with the latter being somebody who has professional qualification - i.e degree).

 

I moved to Australia six years ago where for me it is a breathe of fresh air - where (I believe rightly) only somebody with an appropriate engineering degree can be called an Engineer. An electrician is a separate profession as is an instrument technician.

No disrespect intended but nobody normally calls them self a medical doctor or an accountant without first going to uni to be qualified and then practising for a few years in order to be competent and be recognised as such.

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I was a Principal Auditor specialising in procurement, contracts and construction projects.

 

I am now retired, but I do look after my grandchildren two days a week and I'm about to start working as a volunteer for a local farm museum that was threatened with closure.

 

I trust I won't be milking cows or mucking out pigs :(

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I moved to Australia six years ago where for me it is a breathe of fresh air - where (I believe rightly) only somebody with an appropriate engineering degree can be called an Engineer.

 

This is a particular beef of many in my profession, structural engineering. You are not an engineer if you mend washing machines, repair exhausts for Kwik Fit, you are a fitter. You are not an engineer if you mend photocopiers, or use a lathe to make components. You are an engineer if you have sat a 7 hour exam, and been interviewed by the appropriate professional body, after either studying to at least HNC, then undertaking a further 3 years of study whilst working (as in the old days), or if you have the appropriate degree before sitting said exam & interview (nowadays). You can then call yourself a Chartered Engineer, (after paying the correct fee to the professional body of course). Then in you chosen field you analyse & then design things for others to build, based on the analysis.

 

Me? I’m a Technician Engineer. Never sat the exam & the fees are cheaper.

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I was a Principal Auditor specialising in procurement, contracts and construction projects.

 

I am now retired, but I do look after my grandchildren two days a week and I'm about to start working as a volunteer for a local farm museum that was threatened with closure.

 

I trust I won't be milking cows or mucking out pigs :(

 

Brilliant volunteer work. The grandchildren will love it and will learn so much. If I ever retire then that is what I will aspire to.

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Brilliant volunteer work. The grandchildren will love it and will learn so much. If I ever retire then that is what I will aspire to.

 

Just been to the inaugural meeting and I'm very excited! My grandchildren don't live near me, so they won't visit the museum that much but at least it will be there for when they're staying with me and that was my selfish reason for volunteering.

 

The museum will actually be more of an 'experience', teaching all sorts of people about gardening, food production, the environment and history but it will be very hands-on. Very much a community project with stalls selling local produce and opportunities for children to understand where food comes from.

 

I hope I'm going to be doing 'front of house' stuff because I can talk for England!

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I was a Principal Auditor specialising in procurement, contracts and construction projects.

 

I am now retired, but I do look after my grandchildren two days a week and I'm about to start working as a volunteer for a local farm museum that was threatened with closure.

 

I trust I won't be milking cows or mucking out pigs :(

 

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This is a particular beef of many in my profession, structural engineering. You are not an engineer if you mend washing machines, repair exhausts for Kwik Fit, you are a fitter. You are not an engineer if you mend photocopiers, or use a lathe to make components. You are an engineer if you have sat a 7 hour exam, and been interviewed by the appropriate professional body, after either studying to at least HNC, then undertaking a further 3 years of study whilst working (as in the old days), or if you have the appropriate degree before sitting said exam & interview (nowadays). You can then call yourself a Chartered Engineer, (after paying the correct fee to the professional body of course). Then in you chosen field you analyse & then design things for others to build, based on the analysis.

 

 

I prepared to bet that Isambard Kingdom Brunel will be unimpressed to hear that he does not qualify as a 'Structural Engineer'.

 

Indeed, I understand he did invent a 'Steam Powered Coffin Spinner' for just this eventuality.

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do you mind if I ask what your qualifications are? As I have never heard of an Electrical Installation Engineer............

 

No offence intended (and I rather not get on my soapbox..as I don't know you personally) but I have never heard of an Electrical Installation Engineer (please enlighten me).

I have worked with electricians, instrument technicians and Electrical Engineers (with the latter being somebody who has professional qualification - i.e degree).

 

I moved to Australia six years ago where for me it is a breathe of fresh air - where (I believe rightly) only somebody with an appropriate engineering degree can be called an Engineer. An electrician is a separate profession as is an instrument technician.

No disrespect intended but nobody normally calls them self a medical doctor or an accountant without first going to uni to be qualified and then practising for a few years in order to be competent and be recognised as such.

 

Dear god... :facepalm:

 

I was taking the mickey out of some of the fancy job titles that featured before me.

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