Right on Tony!
Jim
"Tony" <andrewst_at_onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
news:c0e3f26e.0401050415.618784be_at_posting.google.com...
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:<1073258709.842527_at_yasure>...
> > <RANT>
> > We are the only "profession" in which practitioners expect to be able to
> > work without credential. No one is practicing medicine, law, accounting,
> > engineering, dentistry, pharmacy, etc. with so little evidence of skill.
> > Consider that anyone of us could walk into a pharmacy, count pills, and
> > put a label on the bottle. Yet no government in North America, Europe,
> > Australia, New Zealand, or any other first world country, would let us
> > do so without a pharmacy degree and passing a government sponsored exam.
> >
> > So we pay for our "wild west" mentality by watching our jobs being
> > offshored to those as qualified as we are ... because there are no
> > official qualifications to do what we do.
> > </RANT>
>
> I could not agree with you more. You only have to look at some of the
> postings that appear on sites like this one: "My company have tasked
> me with building a database to handle all our payroll and accounts for
> 5000 employees. I know some Visual Basic and once saw Access over
> someone else's shoulder. Please advise how to go about designing a
> database". I made that up, but we have all ready postings just like
> that.
>
> But could anyone ever seriously post to eng.construct.buildings or
> whatever: "My company have tasked me with building a new office block
> to house 5000 employees. I know some woodwork, and once hodded bricks
> on a building site during the summer vacation. Please advise how to
> go about designing a 15-storey building"?
Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 09:15:07 CST
