PEng

"Joe_Limon" (Joe_Limon)
08/21/2015 at 15:26 • Filed to: None

Wahoo! Just got my PEng status. Now I'm all legit. Now if only I had more time to browse Oppo again :-/

DISCUSSION (17)

jjhats > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:30

professional engineer?

For Sweden > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:31

The mods will send you documents to stamp shortly

Joe_Limon > jjhats
08/21/2015 at 15:32

Yep

ChooChooMotherFudger > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:37

Congratulations, I only have some 5ish years left till I can get mine.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:39

Congratulations! That’s a tough one. I did my FEng in college and have been working the last year and a half. I should probably start documenting my hours.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:42

Congrats! I just signed up for the October exam. ME thermo and fluids. What test flavor did you take?

jariten1781 > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 15:46

Never bothered...and my practicing career is so far afield from my degree career I don’t know that I could pass either without school...and screw that.

You get a commiserate pay bump or you going to start looking for another job?

Edit: Oh, and congrats!

Joe_Limon > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
08/21/2015 at 15:49

Here in Alberta the only test we have to take once we get out of school is an ethics exam. The plus side of having a very regulated/tough post secondary program. Apparently they were looking at letting Canadian engineers skip the Fundamentals of Engineering test in the states since a fraction of a percent of us have ever failed it.

Joe_Limon > jariten1781
08/21/2015 at 15:50

Boss is back next week and we will see where my future lies then.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 16:01

Passed my FE two years ago, but haven’t moved into an actual apprenticeship since. :/
Such is engineering.

Joe_Limon > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2015 at 16:03

When I graduated I was funemployed for a solid 3 and a half months. I had even applied as a sales person at a car dealership and was rejected!

DasWauto > For Sweden
08/21/2015 at 16:08

Aww yiss, skirting liability.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > DasWauto
08/21/2015 at 16:10

We’ve got this

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 16:19

I’m employed, and doing (broadly) engineering work, but it’s not at a place that employs a PE, so it doesn’t count. I was funemployed/family employed myself for seven months out of college - then worked a year doing clerical stuff for a friend’s business, then landed here. It’s close enough to the right sort of job I shouldn’t have trouble moving on, but I’ll tell ya - getting a first engineering job while working with the clerical stuff just didn’t seem possible in any way.

ottermann > jjhats
08/21/2015 at 16:22

Penis Engorger......

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Joe_Limon
08/21/2015 at 16:29

I didn’t realize you were up in The Great White North. I was just talking about the differences in the PE between here and there with my boss this morning.

I apologize for my regionalistic assumption.

That reminds me of a story. A friend of mine was going through a checkpoint into Ontario and the Canadian border agent asked him about his citezenship. He answered, “American,” and the agent looked at him with a bit of a sneer and said, “Yeah, I am too. I take it you mean you’re a U.S. citizen?”

Joe_Limon > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
08/21/2015 at 16:47

Haha, I wish I was a border agent, I would do that 100x a day and it wouldn't ever stop being funny (ok maybe it would get tired pretty quickly).