🚀 go-pugleaf

In the referenced article, mct@praxis.co.uk (Martyn Thomas) writes:
>
>I believe that customers wil increasingly require that senior people leading
>software projects are CEng. 
>
>I also believe that the pressure on pay for programmers is downwards
>and that the better qualified "engineers" will be paid better than their
>less qualified colleagues (lots of reasons, but just look at other
>engineering professions for comparisons).

This isn't my experience of mechanical engineering. Those with the highest
pay and status are the managers who are often not CEngs. However, a positive
development is a move towards having "Principal Engineers", responsible 
non-managers.

At my previous company, I and other project engineers (most not CEng) had to
sign a product release form accepting full responsibility under the PRODUCT
LIABILITY LAWS (!) for the machines. Surpisingly, we were not paid any more
for this. One of the main reasons that I left and changed discipline.

Nick Ajderian, CEng, MIMechE, Software Mechanic