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Default New apprentice gets off to a flying start

On Sunday, 13 January 2019 11:05:28 UTC, dennis@home wrote:
On 13/01/2019 09:42, charles wrote:
In article , Steve Walker
wrote:
On 12/01/2019 07:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
Bit of a cheesey reply then. I hated those forms when you started a
job. There was an extremely high temptation to misinterpret things.

Qualifications always made me laugh as I have no formal ones at all,
and they often simply could not understand why I could do the job
better than their chinless graduate with a million 'ologies' to their
name. I tended to put common sense A in the University of life. Brian


My dad was disappointed that he could not join the IEEE because of lack
of qualifications - he was on a number of (and chairing some) BSI
committees at the time!



why would he want to join an American institution?


I was a member of the IEEE once, they have pretty mags and it was free.

I did look at joining the IEE but I felt insulted that they wanted me to
answer two questions on their exam papers when they usually wanted more.

So they were saying I knew more than their usual applicants but not enough.

There wasn't any real advantage of joining anyway.


it's the IET now it change in 2006.