I got no beef with software designers and programmers - I have done my fair share of programming as well. I just take issue with the legally protected term “engineer”, which requires licensure by all states. Locomotive engineers have an exemption, but no one else.
Uh, no.
True , no State licenses a Locomotive Engineer but only because we are licensed by the RR, who are, in essence, Federal entities, on par with the US Govt in the Designation, and even they can only issue the License, after all Governing Federal Guidenlines are met and, far more importantly, must revoke the Locomotive Engineer license if any federal Guideline is violated. up to an including, permenant revocation and the offending Engineer losing the ability to Work, ever again, on any RR , anywhere, in the USA.
Now, think how much better the World would be if the guys who design bridges, High Rise offices or, basically, any other structures that fails, were barred form ever working, for any firm that had anything to do with any of those types of things, ever again. Not even as the janitor.
Oh, least we forget, other than a Nuclear Power Plant Engineer .... Nevermind, someday, some Fanatic may buy a Dodge.
Pssst,
know why we got that Exemption, from State Licensure?
Too important to allow the 'States', any State, to mess with.
Same reason we are not allowed to strike, even by the, so-called, most Labor Friendly President, in decades.
Remember that old joke about which individual body part is THEE most important?
just think of us as the Adze-holes of the Engineering Brotherhood.
Wife calls me one, practically every single day.
Psst 2
Another thing that sets the Locomotive Engineer apart?
No State is allowed to tax our Retirement.
Prohibited by Federal Statute.
