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> Is this expectation that you're always on the learning treadmill an issue for other professions like doctors and lawyers? Of course. A certain minimum is ev

> Is this expectation that you're always on the learning treadmill an issue for other professions like doctors and lawyers? Of course. A certain minimum is even required by law for licensure for some professions. "For dedicated professional engineers, earning a PE license is just the beginning. Many state licensing boards require that PEs maintain and improve their skills through continuing education courses and other opportunities for professional development." https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/maintaining-license https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/maintaining-license "Continuing legal education (CLE), also known as mandatory or minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) or, in some jurisdictions outside the United States, as continuing professional development, consists of professional education for attorneys that takes place after their initial admission to the bar. Within the United States, U.S. attorneys in many states and territories must complete certain required CLE in order to maintain their U.S. licenses to practice law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_legal_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_legal_education "Almost all states require some amount of continuing professional development education and training be completed by teachers to maintain their licenses. Specific requirements for license renewal vary greatly from state to state, and are often quite complex." http://www.teachtomorrow.org/continuing-education-for-teachers/#four http://www.teachtomorrow.org/continuing-education-for-teache... "More than 40 jurisdictions require that architects complete continuing education to update their professional skills to renew their license while additional states are considering such requirements." http://www.ncarb.org/Continuing-Education/Continuing-Education-Requirements-by-State.aspx http://www.ncarb.org/Continuing-Education/Continuing-Educati...

vonmoltke 10y ago
PE continuing education requirements are a joke compared to what this industry expects. Texas, where I used to work and considered getting my PE requires 15 hours per year. What person here in their right mind is going to claim a software engineer can keep current with that little independent study?
- RandomOpinion 10y ago
  15 hours is just the minimum that Texas chose to require for continued licensure. I'd be rather surprised if successful PEs didn't spend as much time in independent study as successful software developers.
  - vonmoltke 10y ago
    First off, I wouldn't be. I used to work with them. Second off, your post, and the others in this chain, are putting forward CE requirements in other professions as evidence that the at-times insane self-learning required by this industry is not unusual. It is. CE requirements are a joke and hold no weight in this discussion. If you want to argue other professions have similar impositions to ours, you need to do it without referring to these requirements.

vonmoltke 10y ago

PE continuing education requirements are a joke compared to what this industry expects. Texas, where I used to work and considered getting my PE requires 15 hours per year. What person here in their right mind is going to claim a software engineer can keep current with that little independent study?

RandomOpinion 10y ago
15 hours is just the minimum that Texas chose to require for continued licensure. I'd be rather surprised if successful PEs didn't spend as much time in independent study as successful software developers.
- vonmoltke 10y ago
  First off, I wouldn't be. I used to work with them. Second off, your post, and the others in this chain, are putting forward CE requirements in other professions as evidence that the at-times insane self-learning required by this industry is not unusual. It is. CE requirements are a joke and hold no weight in this discussion. If you want to argue other professions have similar impositions to ours, you need to do it without referring to these requirements.