On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 06:16:29 -0800, whisky-dave wrote:

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.

I joined with minimal fuss many years ago. At least I get the occasional
interesting meeting, the magazine is very good, and free coffee if I'm
around the Embankment!

Strangely, my CEng isn't with them, but with the BCS (they have good
coffee too).
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