Re: Acoustic Engineer
Originally Posted by
CarlM
There are remarkably few rules about who can call themselves an engineer. As long as they do not get involved in designing boilers or certain types of structural design calculations involving danger to lives or property, my neighbors pet duck can call themselves an engineer. It is kind of strange. People who would be embarrassed to refer to themselves as a doctor, a lawyer, nurse or teacher without proper schooling are fine with claiming to be an engineer.
My rant for today.
I'm a folklorist, who studied hard for a couple of decades, attended numerous lectures by experts in the subject, read and was examined on a great many books and essays, went through three days of examinations on virtually all aspects of folklore, did fieldwork, and wrote, then defended, a PhD thesis before a panel of six doctors of folklore. I now call myself a folklorist, as can any person who has a hobbyist's interest in folklore. The same is true of historians. Sigh. Anyone engineers want to joins us for a beer and a rant?
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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