Experience
I agree that experience is much more important. But still, this gives not the right to use titles like Bachelor or Engineer. And I know some company's just give names to the function and not in relation to what has been studied. A Bachelor can also do the job of a "Project Engineer", but is it right to place Project Engineer on the business card then or not ? It's kinda fake to my eyes. Even if the experience is 30x times a master degree.
I agree that experience is much more important. But still, this gives not the right to use titles like Bachelor or Engineer. And I know some company's just give names to the function and not in relation to what has been studied. A Bachelor can also do the job of a "Project Engineer", but is it right to place Project Engineer on the business card then or not ? It's kinda fake to my eyes. Even if the experience is 30x times a master degree.
I dont have a degree and appreciate some people worked hard to get theirs.
Having said that I agree it is wrong to misrepresent yourself but of course words mean diferent things in different countries..... my washing machine would be repaired by the 'service engineer' and the lifts at the local shops are maintained by the 'lift engineer' who dont have degrees (generally speaking)
I could get complete mine with 1 yr of hard study but have been working in 3 different jobs that were advertised as 'degree qualified' for over 10 years... my work experience and on the job knowledge is just as /more than important than a bit of paper.
I intend to finish mine in a few years but between working for a living and seeing my kids it is low on the priorities..
Here in the UK it has been common for people to do apprenticeships and HNC/D courses followed by years of working their way up through various career paths. In my experience degreed engineers tend to be found in the larger employers (automotive /govt /petro chem /pharma) etc
btw my job title has the word engineer in it.........
Cheers
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