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Also may have to do with the prestige of being an engineer in USSR. That was a popular profession.
by yankoff 11y ago
Also may have to do with the prestige of being an engineer in USSR. That was a popular profession.
- sliverstorm 11y agoI feel like I can only dream about such a time, such a place. Engineer? Prestige?
- tormeh 11y agoI think it's the inverse. Disregard for engineers seems like an anglo-saxon phenomenon to me. The Germanic countries are, of course, famed for holding engineers in high regard, but so do most third-world countries, and China. I think the anglo-saxon opinion of engineers is caused by blurring the line between engineer and technician.
- fit2rule 11y agoI think its caused by the inappropriate elevation of the marketing classes, who don't have a job unless someone else does the work of building something...
- yankoff 11y agoWell, I think, being a software engineer is still pretty cool in Silicon Valley :)
- prodmerc 11y agoEh, don't know about the place. You'd be respected, but stuck with working for a shitty government and shitty people with their own agendas for all of your life.
- varjag 11y agoNot in the late 1980s certainly.