OT: Engineers

In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
line you serve on?

Hardy

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"HardySpicer" <gyansorova@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a 
> train driver.

Well, no.  A train driver is called an "engineer", but in 
general, most engineers have little training in driving 
trains.  When I was in college, "Train Driving 301" was an 
elective but it was considered such an end-of-the-line 
course that I opted for "Rope Pushing 340" instead.  "Bull 
Throwing 208" was also an option, but that course was always 
oversubscribed.

> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from 
> such an
> occupation?

There are very few distinguished engineers in North America. 
The last one I can remember was George Goethals.

> If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?

I'm not proud of the fact that I'm an engineer.  I do my 
best to keep my aberrations hidden from such people.

>
> Hardy
> 

On Sep 15, 4:27?am, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?
>
> Hardy

Easy...
Train engineers have greasy fingernails.
The other ones have pocket protectors.

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:49:14 -0700, the renowned mpm
<mpmillard@aol.com> wrote:

>On Sep 15, 4:27?am, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>> line you serve on?
>>
>> Hardy
>
>Easy...
>Train engineers have greasy fingernails.
>The other ones have pocket protectors.

Sanitary engineers have mops. 


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HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com> wrote in news:1189844842.826135.277220@
19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?
> 
> Hardy
> 

One would prepend or append the title "engineer" with the sort of engineer 
one is.

I call myself an engineering techinician.

mpm wrote:
> On Sep 15, 4:27?am, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>>How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>>occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>>line you serve on?
>>
>>Hardy
> 
> 
> Easy...
> Train engineers have greasy fingernails.
> The other ones have pocket protectors.
> 

Real engineers know what a Log Log Duplex Decitrig is and how to use it.

I'm an engineer, but please don't tell my mom.  She thinks I'm still playing 
piano in a cat house.

Jim




>
> I'm not proud of the fact that I'm an engineer.  I do my best to keep my 
> aberrations hidden from such people.
>
>>
>> Hardy
>>
>
> 

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer wrote:

> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?
> 

If you should happen to meet a train-driving engineer, I'm sure he will
make it clear, because I can't imagine one not being rather proud of
his job. "I'm a Train Driver!" ;-)

I got the job title, "Systems Engineer" once, but that was a place
where the owner wasn't impressed with titles anyway. He'd say, "You
want a job title? How about President?" and I'd say, "Nah, then I'd
have to make decisions like where to put the bookshelves an' shit."

Today, I'm "Engineering Director". ;-) (not at the same company.)

Cheers!
Rich

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:27:22 -0700, HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com>
wrote:

>In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
>How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
>occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
>line you serve on?
>
>Hardy

Around here, if you tell someone that you're an engineer, they usually
assume that you're the tech kind, not a train driver. They will often
ask "what kind", meaning mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer.
I answer "I design electronics" and they usually look impressed.

There are also "stationary engineers", people who operate power
plants, boilers, HVAC systems in buildings.

Does a stationery engineer design paper products?

John

HardySpicer wrote:
> 
> In north America I am led to believe, an engineer is a train driver.
> How do you distinguish yourselves if you live there from such an
> occupation? If you say you are an engineer do people then ask which
> line you serve on?
> 
> Hardy


   TV repaimen in England are called 'engineer', so what's your point?


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