[BITList] CLEAR NOW

[CT's]

ok, hugh

that is clear [to everyone] – you are an ENGINEER.

ct

From: HUGH 
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:58 AM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] Cat D11R

Colin,

I was interrupted last time I was composing an email to 't group.  Janet was reminding me a TV programme was starting - I had asked her to do that. And the programme could not have been more apposite to what we were discussing. Films made in the 60s about Scottish industry, heavily slanted towards shipbuilding.  By now I am used to Scottish shipbuilding being Glasgow shipbuilding, so I won't be writing to the BBC about it.  And who should be giving the lowdown on life in a ship drawing office but my friend, George Byng, draughtsman, and weight lifter extraordinaire, speaking a bit posh so as to be understood.

You asked if I'd rather answer to tradesman or engineer.  I don't recall ever being referred to as a tradesman, or referring to myself as one - that's a newspaper term.  I served an apprenticeship as a fitter, but that could be misleading - shipyard platers were often called fitters. The firm I worked for styled themselves marine engineers and boilermakers, so we called ourselves engineers, a fact decried by a prat I've mentioned before, who reckoned only members of learned institutes could call themselves engineers.  I became a draughtsman, but I didn't serve an appenticeship as one, and I had that in common with every engineer from Kincaids who ever became a draughtsman. So, in my career I've been employed as office boy, boy labourer, fitter, draughtsman of various grades, design engineer, estimator, marine engineer officer.  I haven't a clue what I am, but engineer will do nicely.

Hugh.



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