From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf72ca9e8a6b3cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin Condic Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida Date: 1999/11/10 Message-ID: <3829C229.6694381D@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 547010699 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]> <7vv26t$tju$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <804plo$dvs$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net> <3828A2D7.F23C91AE@mitre.org> <2x7W3.296$4D5.197614@ratbert.tds.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: condicma@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "M." wrote: > You can be considered one, and even call yourself one if you are an employee > of a company. But in some states you can't do business directly with the > public as an "engineer" unless you have qualified for and passed the exam. > (By the way, I am not a lawyer, and these are not professional legal > opinions.) > The last time I checked, this was a free country and you are pretty much entitled to call yourself anything you like so long as there is no intent to defraud the public. You can call yourself "Grand Imperial Poobah Of The Waterbuffalo Lodge" or "Doctor Telefunken UB48" or even just "The Dude" if you like. (Or "Your Dudeness", if you are not into the whole brevity thing.) The problem comes in when you start representing to the public (generally involving commercial transactions) that you are competent to do something for which you are not qualified. (Think of medical doctors vs PhDs. Both go by the title "Doctor" but only one attempts to practice medicine.) BTW: My legal opinions are worth what you pay for them. :-) -- Marin David Condic, Software Engineer. (Out of the way, you swine! An Engineer is coming!) ----------------------------- If you hurry you can, for a short time only, still find me at: Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/