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Watch out for Moulder and Scully look alikesYou forgot TV licence, they "Authorised agents to investigate the premises" last week... scaREE
Watch out for Moulder and Scully look alikesYou forgot TV licence, they "Authorised agents to investigate the premises" last week... scaREE
Congratulations - you can now have a sideline signing passport photos!
I suspect what you have written is not quite correct, when I got CEng (from the IEE) it was you can do this and that (including the post nominals) "after receipt of cleared funds" - The IEE always did like to get the cash sorted first, the IMechE letters used to be similar but a little less direct.
Congratulations - you can now have a sideline signing passport photos!
IMechE's wording isn't quite as strict as that! Yes I am "required to maintain your subscription fees to use the designatory letters MIMechE, or the designatory letters denoting your category of registration."
Got the email today... successful! I can now put 3 more letters after my name
I think I put too much criticism on myself for this sort of thing... I had almost convinced myself that I would be missing something and it would be deferred.
Got £346 fees to pay now
Professional fees are tax deductibleBest ask for the payrise now too, to help cover the fees.
I'd be quite happy to stay in the current place until retirement, they're paying me well and still expanding steadily, but it doesn't hurt to have a plan 'B'. Any thoughts?
Well done good Sir, now there’s some urgency to meet up for that long awaited night out ….Well, "officially" I retire in three or four months (I won't of course) and today, after doing battle on the M6 and M60 in the pouring rain for several hours, I arrived home to an email from the IET telling me that following assessment I have been awarded and qualify for MIET after my name.
This has not been a straightforward thing because it turns out they didn't have any standards criteria for my field (gunsmith) and I am informed that I am the only person in the institute in my field (I don't know what that says about the state of the UK gun industry but I don't think it's good) the reason for the getting on for two years to consider my application and putting me through the wringer with CV's and such like. They really did not know what category to put me in so they have created one.
I know that the MIET is a subscription but let me tell you, after what I have been through to achieve it I will never look at subscription "letters" in the same light ever again!
So why did I go through it all? Well, occasionally I teach at a local college and some half wit wanted to know what my qualifications were, now the lecturers are able to put: Course Tutor: Mr X. Xxxxxxx MIET so just another way of me continuing in a field not viewed as "politically correct" by far too many people nowadays, with a little less resistance.
That's a bit of a shame. But you worked for large engineering companies who regarded CEng as a simple rite of passage, didn't you?I remember being told back in the 1980's that getting CEng was going to be important because the continental Europeans regard such qualifications as more important than your degree. In the 40 years that followed, I never once had the feeling it did me any good, wrt working in the UK.
I agree that what's important in people's background varies a lot from one company to another, and quite often, it's hard to figure out what they do see has important.That's a bit of a shame. But you worked for large engineering companies who regarded CEng as a simple rite of passage, didn't you?
I would say in my experience a lot of smaller companies and professionals regard the CEng as far more valuable than degree, and that's only increasing as UK engineering degree educations get more watered down.
Its not about your skill set, but also how much corporate pishhhhhh you can spout at interview about everything unrelated to your job! I leant this working for Broken Promises Petroleum!I agree that what's important in people's background varies a lot from one company to another, and quite often, it's hard to figure out what they do see has important.
I worked for quite a time for the Royal Ordnance company, formed in 1986 by merging and then privatising various government-owned businesses. These were then bought by British Aerospace (for peanuts) in much the same way that BAe had previously bought Rover cars from the government.
BAe talent spotters would then come looking for people they liked, and dragged them off to work for BAe. However, we never did figure out what it was that they were looking for in people. Some really talented people were just passed by, while some fairly undistinguished people suddenly got the "call" to greater things.