Only Ties?

Hi Roy,

I was having a good day until I read that (having just managed to submit an IET conference paper a whole 5 minutes before the deadline!)

I get very, very,very frustrated about the huge amount of snobbery within our profession - in all directions, inverted, verted, sideways. (Throughout my career - including to the present day - I've been critcised for being too theoretical, too practical, too buried in the detail, too high level, too pedantic, too "charging in like a bull in a china shop" *, too much like a manager rather than an engineer, too much like an engineer rather than a manager, too nice, and too uncaring of people. Which I guess must mean I've got it about right ) It is BONKERS that engineers have so little respect for other engineers. Engineers often claim that "the profession is not respected", well we could start by working harder to respect each other. Mini rant over (bit more than a micro rant this time!)


So yes, I do understand your point of view, however I still stick to my view that IEng is a useful and valuable designation and I'd like to see people being pleased to show it - but as we've all discussed to death elsewhere on these pages that's an uphill battle.


Time for bed...


Cheers,


Andy


* That's a quote from input someone provided to my first ever appraisal in 1984. The very wise manager who gave me that apprasial said, and this has always stuck with me, "I think sometimes these comments reflect more on the people who made them than they do on you".

Hi Roy,

I was having a good day until I read that (having just managed to submit an IET conference paper a whole 5 minutes before the deadline!)

I get very, very,very frustrated about the huge amount of snobbery within our profession - in all directions, inverted, verted, sideways. (Throughout my career - including to the present day - I've been critcised for being too theoretical, too practical, too buried in the detail, too high level, too pedantic, too "charging in like a bull in a china shop" *, too much like a manager rather than an engineer, too much like an engineer rather than a manager, too nice, and too uncaring of people. Which I guess must mean I've got it about right ) It is BONKERS that engineers have so little respect for other engineers. Engineers often claim that "the profession is not respected", well we could start by working harder to respect each other. Mini rant over (bit more than a micro rant this time!)


So yes, I do understand your point of view, however I still stick to my view that IEng is a useful and valuable designation and I'd like to see people being pleased to show it - but as we've all discussed to death elsewhere on these pages that's an uphill battle.


Time for bed...


Cheers,


Andy


* That's a quote from input someone provided to my first ever appraisal in 1984. The very wise manager who gave me that apprasial said, and this has always stuck with me, "I think sometimes these comments reflect more on the people who made them than they do on you".