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In my field (mechanical), there are engineers, technicians, and drafters. Each of the above require more education than the next, and is paid better than the ne
by smnrchrds 5y ago
In my field (mechanical), there are engineers, technicians, and drafters. Each of the above require more education than the next, and is paid better than the next. Someone who only does drafting work will not describe their job as engineering, nor are companies likely to ask engineers to do drafting because it doesn't make sense to pay someone an engineer's salary for that kind of work.
Basic static site seems like drafting. A CRUD app or WordPress site or similar between drafting and technician.
- true_religion 5y agoIn a way, software development is more like writing than it is engineering. There is a continuum between people who author crud apps and people who author compilers, but you can go from one to the other simply by having industry experience and access to good books.
- cutemonster 5y agoWordpress sites is more like painting and writing. And physics engines and distributed databases and creating Wireguard is software engineering. I think there are hundreds of times more people doing the former, than the later