> Reading the post from the guy whose family didnt understand what he
did for a living reminded me of two stories. (I am a Mechanical
Engineer working in the position of a Plant Engineer)
> At a Plant Engineers conference (AFE) an Engineer was asked by a
woman in the Hotel lobby about the conference, he replied about the
group of Plant Engineers. She said " Oh I am into gardening too ! "
> Another time this happened to me. I was in the company briefly of
a young woman who lived near the factory where I worked. She asked what
I did for the company, rather than say "Plant Engineer " or "Engineer "
I said "maintenance" (mistake on my part - about to get worse)
> She said " Oh cleaning and stuff ? "
>
> Pete I guess you gotta love it
If you *had* said just "engineer", likely a comment about trains would have followed. "Stationary engineer" anyone? "Yeah, I look after all the company's letterhead and envelopes".
Up here we have "The Iron Ring" ( http://www.ironring.ca/ ), which is quite handy (pun not intended) for identifying brethren - although I are not an engineer myself. I can spell and don't wear a dorky pocket protector and inch-thick glasses [1]. Years ago I thought of making a similar ring for drafters, designers, etc. These days I suppose it'd have to be made of obsolete, melted-down hardware lock dongles though [2]. I gave up on the idea after realizing the logical progression of wannabe herd behaviour: eventually, impressionable, young engineering types would be so weighed-down with bling bling [3] that they wouldn't be able to lift their hands to operate a keyboard.
Paul
[1] Bart Simpson to Milhouse Van Houten: "How can someone with glasses so thick be so stupid?"
[2] Rumour has it that ACAD 2005 will have a hardware lock.
[3] a la Mr. T...-Square? Received on Fri Mar 05 21:32:00 2004
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