£7,000 day rate - how the other half live

[Dark Black]

Being in engineering sector, best I ever managed was £40 an hour.

I'm still in engineering, I haven't got out of bed for that sort of rate for years!

[vetran]

I'm still in engineering, I haven't got out of bed for that sort of rate for years!

proper engineering with lathes?

[Dark Black]

proper engineering with lathes?

I wish... would be more interesting than writing software

[vwdan]

I wish... would be more interesting than writing software

So you're not really "in engineering" then?

[Dark Black]

So you're not really "in engineering" then?

Yeah ok then, I'll bite

Software engineering was a valid term last time I looked.

I usually work in the "engineering" sector (as opposed to finance or health or whatever else has software these days).

So yes... I am in engineering.

HTHBIDI

[vwdan]

Yeah ok then, I'll bite

Software engineering was a valid term last time I looked.

I usually work in the "engineering" sector (as opposed to finance or health or whatever else has software these days).

So yes... I am in engineering.

HTHBIDI

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

[Dark Black]

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

Yeah ok mate, whatever.

[vwdan]

Yeah ok mate, whatever.

Salty

[wantacontract]

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

I quite agree....

[fool]

I quite agree....

I typically don't.

My Software Engineering degrees are BSc & MSc and specifically not BEng & MEng. Very little of what we do in the field would be construed as being of a set of professional standards such as that required to build a bridge.

If our industry built them, they'd be falling down on a weekly basis.