Engineering in the UK

[scooterscot]

What they all said.



I am on my highest rate ever and still want out.

Out of interest what kind of engineer are you?

[scooterscot]

Do anyone think IT will ever become like engineering? That is, low paid?

There are no limits to measure how I feel when such questions are asked.

To compare a subject like engineering with which Britain has a long history dating back hundreds of years to that of IT dating back, what 20 or so years before it was commonly known amongst the general fraternity.

To quote wiki:

"Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realise improvements to the lives of people."


IT is nothing more than a service which engineering allowed to exist in the first place.

Ok rant over.

Now to the point of the OP. It is low paid only the UK because the UK has long lost it lustre for inventiveness and fallen in love with finical services. You only need look across the channel to see rates on offer. Holland before Germany for that matter.

[sasguru]

There are no limits to measure how I feel when such questions are asked.

To compare a subject like engineering with which Britain has a long history dating back hundreds of years to that of IT dating back, what 20 or so years before it was commonly known amongst the general fraternity.

To quote wiki:

"Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realise improvements to the lives of people."


IT is nothing more than a service which engineering allowed to exist in the first place.

Ok rant over.

Now to the point of the OP. It is low paid only the UK because the UK has long lost it lustre for inventiveness and fallen in love with finical services. You only need look across the channel to see rates on offer. Holland before Germany for that matter.

What a pile of bollux. You really are a cretin of the first order.

[sasguru]

. Now I work alone .

Probably because you are a khoont.

[doodab]

There are no limits to measure how I feel when such questions are asked.

To compare a subject like engineering with which Britain has a long history dating back hundreds of years to that of IT dating back, what 20 or so years before it was commonly known amongst the general fraternity.

To quote wiki:

"Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realise improvements to the lives of people."


IT is nothing more than a service which engineering allowed to exist in the first place.

Ok rant over.

Now to the point of the OP. It is low paid only the UK because the UK has long lost it lustre for inventiveness and fallen in love with finical services. You only need look across the channel to see rates on offer. Holland before Germany for that matter.

IT is arguably a branch of engineering, perhaps the most demanding for we frequently deal with the invisible,and levels of complexity that make a pre computer age automobile or aircraft seem relatively simple. Not to mention that IT has revolutionised engineering itself.

[lukemg]

He's right, IT is just a tool to do the job and an unsophisticated one too. In the not too distant future do you really think people will be patching up computers or sitting there typing in lines of text ? They will laugh out loud at the way things are setup at the moment.

[Churchill]

He's right, IT is just a tool to do the job and an unsophisticated one too. In the not too distant future do you really think people will be patching up computers or sitting there typing in lines of text ? They will laugh out loud at the way things are setup at the moment.

And we'll all be travelling to work in flying cars...

Bollocks.

[TestMangler]

And we'll all be travelling to work in flying cars...

Bollocks.

And jetpacks. What happened to jetpacks ? I saw them on Tomorrow's World and they said in 10-20 years time, we'd all have one

[Pondlife]

Weren't we supposed to all have The Home Fusion Generator by now?

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

[scooterscot]

Weren't we supposed to all have The Home Fusion Generator by now?

Yes, in 50 years time. Starting from when we figure out how to do it.