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In context: The guy was a swede. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that in general we in the nordic countries don't have an additional licensing scheme for e
by fsloth 10y ago
In context: The guy was a swede. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that in general we in the nordic countries don't have an additional licensing scheme for engineers. Having a university degree is considered sufficient proof of skill to get hired by an engineering company. And, the last I looked, our houses and bridges were pretty okay. Nobody designs stuff alone - most structural engineers work for one engineering company or another and work in teams.
So, in his context, having a degree is sufficient to be able to call himself an engineer. Funny he hasn't acclimatized to US, though.
- anigbrowl 10y agoFor sure. But they took time to explain the issue to him in an agreeable way, and then he broke the agreement. As a Euro myself, my experience is that many Americans' complaints about governance turn out to be, well, exaggerated. Of course one runs into unhelpful bureaucrats from time to time and some cases are egregious but on the whole it's not nearly as bad as you might imagine from reading discussions like that. It's worth bearing in mind that there are multiple different legal philosophies at play in the USA, some of which have historically been violently opposed to each other. If you are interested in these social dynamics (and you probably should be at this point in history) then I strongly recommend American Nations by Colin Woodard as a guide for the perplexed.