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Isn't accounting "finance engineering"? :-)

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And cleaning staff are actually floor engineers. Everything is engineering if you are imaginative enough.

Nah, cleaning staff are hygiene technicians.

Well, in English, "engineer" does seem to also mean technical worker (what we call "technicien" in French), in addition to "ingénieur".

In my country to be an engineer I have to have a university degree of a certain kind, then do a state exam for the national engineering association, then pay a yearly fee to remain an engineer.

I'm a bit discontent how just about anyone of my coworkers in USA can be a whatever engineer :D

In America we look at the ideas someone has rather than what degree or membership they may have purchased.[0]

[0]https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/04/beaverton_man_cl...

That's why salesmen whose only job is to promise literally whatever to customers are called "sales engineers"… because of their superior ideas -_-'

Studying and learning and taking exams? Nah… that's boring.

I'm going to point out that you have this exact system for lawyers and doctors… you can't just have ideas and be a lawyer or a doctor.

No, they are obviously flat surface managers.

Despite the tongue in cheek sibling response, accounting is more like engineering than the holier than thou techies here would care to admit.

Are you implying techies are engineers? They are not. Just like accounting isn't engineering. Engineering is engineering.

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