(my bold)scotview wrote:I served my time as a fitter and turner, ONC.
Then the drawing office HNC.
Then University BSc Mech Eng
Then MIMechE, AMICE
A couple of things.
1 There were only about 4 of us out of 200 that went through to MIMechE from a starting group of apprentices. But all those other apprentices recognised our "bit of paper" saying we were engineers.
2 There are engineers and there are engineers. Some are virtually hewers of wood and drawers of water (like me) BUT some are truly gifted and don't just apply engineering principles they deeply and fundamentally understand them, they are different. So even in engineering there is a very discrete strata of ability.
Of course, but you are still very much an engineer. You do not have to be Lionel Messi to call yourself a professional football player, but you do need to be able too feed your family and pay your mortgage, not just hack around every Sunday for fun.