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I just "say" I'm an engineer like all the coders here. I don't hold a certification nor do I have an engineering degree. But I sure enjoy saying I'm an engineer. Like many of you fellow coders I'm getting close to claiming I'm a doctor too. Just call me Dr. Code. I have a license to precribe additional billable hours.

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Seems reasonable. Physicians, without PhDs, usurped doctor from academics back in the day in an attempt to bring legitimacy to their profession, so why not coders as well?

Yep, doctor just means teacher. A physician should be called medicus if they want a fancy Latin title.

I'm a data plumber -- bits go through pipes and into buckets.

I'm a garbage collector, at least when coding in C.

Work gave us all tshirts that say “company name - Engineering”. I do enjoy walking around with it and people assuming I do something more interesting than working on ad tech.

>I just "say" I'm an engineer like all the coders here.

I work as a coder and actually have a bachelor's degree in information and communication technologies, so I've never really had any qualms about calling myself a software engineer.

You should, you DO NOT have an engineering degree....

But I do. My degree is Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng). I'm even a member of the Union of Professional Engineers.

That's blanket illegal here in Quebec. You can't call yourself an engineer of any kind unless you're licensed by a professional board. I'm a software developer.

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