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PE continuing education requirements are a joke compared to what this industry expects. Texas, where I used to work and considered getting my PE requires 15 hours per year. What person here in their right mind is going to claim a software engineer can keep current with that little independent study?

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15 hours is just the minimum that Texas chose to require for continued licensure. I'd be rather surprised if successful PEs didn't spend as much time in independent study as successful software developers.

First off, I wouldn't be. I used to work with them.

Second off, your post, and the others in this chain, are putting forward CE requirements in other professions as evidence that the at-times insane self-learning required by this industry is not unusual. It is. CE requirements are a joke and hold no weight in this discussion. If you want to argue other professions have similar impositions to ours, you need to do it without referring to these requirements.

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