BCS membership?

[OwlHoot]

I've been a full member of the BCS since my student days and am also a chartered engineer so have CITP and CEng titles as well as the academic letters. But I don't think I've had any benefit from the membership in my long career. Is it worth stumping up £221 for another year of letters after my name that I don't use? Or should I use that money toward gap insurance for a new car that I may use?

Does the BCS own a swanky building in Central London with ample private parking space? If so and you often drive to London then £221 is a no-brainer.

[Yorkie62]

Never been a member of BCS. I am a member of IET since student days only to maintain my Engerneering council registration (CEng) and INCOSE which as a CSEP tells the client everything they need to know about the high quality and knowledge based they are engaging with. I do need to transfer my CEng to INCOSE and ditch the IET when I get round to filling out the form.

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[NickFitz]

I'm a member of CUK, that's all my clients need to know to understand the calibre of contractor they are hiring.

I've got CUK on my CV twice now

[GJABS]

I'm a member of CUK, that's all my clients need to know to understand the calibre of contractor they are hiring.

And you've been on the bench ever since?

[cojak]

I'm in it and promote the fact on LinkedIn. At least one useful connection stopped by to speak to me because of it, I guess because there are so many out there doing my kind of stuff who aren't.

You get good meetings if you're based closed to London, and I have been to one or rwo useful ones in the East Midlands.

But it's the LinkedIn promotion that keeps me.

[woohoo]

I'm a member of CUK, that's all my clients need to know to understand the calibre of contractor they are hiring.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm in the IET.

I get a "free" magazine that I don't read and throw in the recycling after my mate has read it.

Then again, I never bothered with CEng since it's almost totally pointless unless you're in the Civil Service or the like.

Chap I was on the CEI Part II course with 40 odd years ago* was in the Civil Service & he's got a gold plated pension paid for by the likes of us, is CEng, and is a Fellow of the IET to boot.

So for him it made sense.

For me?

Not so much.

I became MIEE when they abolished AMIEE back in the day.

*I've just remembered that he didn't know how Roman numerals worked in the A3 maths class.

[northernladuk]

I quit BCS years ago because there was absolutely no point to membership.

Same.

[ladymuck]

I quit BCS years ago because there was absolutely no point to membership.

[Mordac]

It's the letters before your name which count.

Sir Mordy

[tazdevil]

I've been a full member of the BCS since my student days and am also a chartered engineer so have CITP and CEng titles as well as the academic letters. But I don't think I've had any benefit from the membership in my long career. Is it worth stumping up £221 for another year of letters after my name that I don't use? Or should I use that money toward gap insurance for a new car that I may use?