2026-03-26 06:47 UTC
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@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa 2026-03-26 06:51
@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot Me too (except in my case it's Graham). I've been coding professionally since 1998, having started as a Junior Programmer, then progressed to Software Developer, and then Senior Software Developer. At no point have I ever felt the temptation to refer to myself as an "Engineer", and to be honest, I've always found the term quite pretentious. I know nothing about engineering. I've never built a bridge or a road or anything like that, and to my mind, there's just no correlation between those two. However, having read some of the responses from people who call themselves "Engineer" because their degrees are in electronics engineering, I'll say fair enough to them. Consider me schooled. :-)