Graham DownsIf you write software for a living, what do you call yourself? #polls
Please boost for reach. I don't want to cloud the results by including hashtags pointing to certain terms. :-)
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NormanDunbar@GrahamDowns I call myself "Norman"! (Sorry.)
In the past I have been a programmers, junior and senior, and also developer plus senior.
Cheers.
@NormanDunbar Me too (except in my case it's Graham).
I've been coding professionally since 1998, having started as a Junior Programmer, then progressed to Software Developer, and then Senior Software Developer.
At no point have I ever felt the temptation to refer to myself as an "Engineer", and to be honest, I've always found the term quite pretentious. I know nothing about engineering. I've never built a bridge or a road or anything like that, and to my mind, there's just no correlation between those two.
However, having read some of the responses from people who call themselves "Engineer" because their degrees are in electronics engineering, I'll say fair enough to them. Consider me schooled. :-)
@GrahamDowns I *was* an engineer, a marine one at that, before I taught myself to code in 1982 on a zx81, went to college then started work in IT.
@NormanDunbar Oh wow. That's awesome!!
I never went to college/university. Completely self-taught, I started working three months after graduating High School. I wasn't even 18 yet at the time (I was two weeks away, though, so it was fine).
@GrahamDowns I gave up my job to go to college. I did get a small grant though, so I wasn't entirely penniless! The course was a year and you got six months in industry as part of it.
That was 1983. After that I was another 2 years doing a diploma course, then over a decade in local government in Scotland. Back to industry in Leeds afterwards then MrsD and I started our own consultancy and did that until we retired.
I did programming & Oracle database DBA stuff, she was a qualified SW tester.
@NormanDunbar That is a really cool story. You were obviously really committed to making it work. All I can say is well done! :)
@GrahamDowns Thanks. 👍
@GrahamDowns Now that I've retired, I write books . I call myself "author" now. 😁 Mostly about the Arduino, but I'm doing one now for the Raspberry Pi Pico.