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“I’m an engineer” were your exact words. You’re a petulant little shit who certainly won’t make it far in academia. Get called out and shamed despite deflection and denial.

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AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ah I think I know what this is about now. If you come from a country like Canada where “Engineer” is a protected designation, then I can understand you thinking it’s a lie and I apologize for that misunderstanding.

In America and my state specifically, the word “professional engineer” is protected and requires certification, but “engineer” does not. There were several people in the civil engineering firm in my hometown who were called engineers and only had highschool diplomas, but that didn’t change the fact they were experienced engineers and called engineers.

In other fields of engineering, like software engineering, you’ll find lots of people with the title of engineer without a degree.

I’m sorry that you felt mislead by me calling myself an engineer despite the fact I’m still in school and only an engineer by title for my research. But that was not an intentional deception, simply a discrepancy between our cultural definitions of the term/title.

Also, I have made it far and will likely continue to push on in academia (though I’d like to get out of this country before starting a PhD so that complicates things).

Anyway, I’m sorry that I’ve offended you and that my attempts to explain/defend myself have come off as petulant. I’ll stop engaging with your comments and you should feel free to block me if you don’t want to come across my posts and comments again.

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to explain things more clearly/calmly sooner and for what it’s worth I’ll try to avoid calling myself an “engineer” without a qualifier stating I’m a student or researcher now that I know some places are more strict about the term.

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- chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Absolute shit academic ethics. You’re doing a Mutahar.
  
  You’re not an engineer. You’re a lying child. You’re also not even a tenth as clever as you suspect yourself to be.
  
  Write another essay, please. You’re a liar and a child.
  
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