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by avh02 2500 days ago
Wasn't about you in particular to be honest (but I like how you owned it). Personally, my official position is "software engineer" and I hate it. We have nowhere near the culpability engineers in other disciplines do.
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Ironically it took me a while to even start using that terminology. Where I'm from, "engineer" means something specific, even in software, and you can't just call yourself an engineer (well, there's no LAW against it, but people will call bullshit pretty fast if you didn't go through the right channels). In the US, everyone's an engineer. Im surprised the person who serves me my burger at the counter isn't a Bovine Product Assembly Engineer.
And politicians are Bovine (Something Else) Engineers.
In theory "yes" but in practice engineering doesn't disbar people in the same way law and medicine does.

When was the last time you saw a news story about a Ceng / PE getting disbarred? Stories about doctors are much more common.