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What I want to become Vs What I do (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The weird thing is that engineer is a protected term in Canada but every software dev title I've had so far includes it anyway. It doesn't seem enforced at all here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I honestly thought there was too, my official job title / offer includes it in the role, despite the role explicitly having no requirement for an engineering degree.

I always found it funny, how I could do a 4 year electrical engineering degree, then work as an electrical engineer for 4 years, but never do my final law/ethics exam so couldn't call myself an electrical engineer, but could just teach myself python and call myself a software engineer, turns out I was wrong.

It is awkward though, especially in a remote work world, given that we compete directly against American "software engineers" for the exact same jobs.