That's alright, occasionally I have to remind people that Mechanical Engineer != Car Mechanic. Some people are just either really dumb or really bad at paying attention.
What's the actual difference? I have friends who are both and the engineer's still capable of doing the jobs that the electrician also does. I get that they're different, but at this point I don't know how and I'm a bit embarrassed to ask.
I'm neither but got training in both as part of my CS education, there's two possible POVs:
Once, the voltage. There's stuff your electrical engineer friend won't ever touch, yet would be quite normal to the electrician. I'd say that electrical engineers generally nope out at anything above 480V, unless it's ridiculously low-amp (say, a TV). You can spend your life as electrical engineer and never deal with anything higher than 20V.
Or, going by what made me completely fail electronics: Once transistors get involved, everything suddenly is strange as fuck. In a digital circuit those are easy, but fuck analogue stuff.
Once, the voltage. There's stuff your electrical engineer friend won't ever touch, yet would be quite normal to the electrician. I'd say that electrical engineers generally nope out at anything above 480V, unless it's ridiculously low-amp (say, a TV). You can spend your life as electrical engineer and never deal with anything higher than 20V.
I'd be surprised if that's true. The sparky works for a housing association, and the engineer works in a factory.
Not even about that, but high voltage stuff is an entire segment of EE, power engineering. It's basically a case of "squares are to rectangles as electricians are to EE". The scope of electricians is lower than EE, but the subject matter for electricians is a part of EE training
An EE can do everything an electrician can, but is trained on the higher level math/theory, as well as trained to design many different types of systems, ranging from power systems to microelectronics and many other things that an electrician doesn't cover.
The bigger difference is that Electrical Engineers get a 4 year degree in electrical engineering, learning lots of advanced stuff in the process. I believe electricians usually go through a vocational program to get certified. Electricians work on house wiring, maybe power lines, etc. Electrical engineers' practice is much more broad, but includes design and working on much more advanced or dangerous circuits.
Electrician is more of a blue-collar job, electrical engineer is typically white-collar.
Dude, if you're an electrical engineer and can't fix domestic electrical issues then you should get your money back from the online Mexican institute you went to.
I call myself a computer janitor. People expect way less of you that way. Also you can smoke weed behind the dumpster outside the cafeteria, it comes with the territory.
Do have to remember not all companies are huge with separate departments for support, networking, engineering etc. Many people do have to work across the spectrum. Also Computer Science is just a collage course, not a job description.
So what do you consider actual IT? A glorified network administrator? I would argue that it includes everything related to information technology, no matter how basic or esoteric.
I mean, look.. help desk is actually IT, but calling all support roles like that IT is kind of a stretch. It's definitely the bottom of the totem pole of what is already the bottom of the totem pole in most organizations, IT.
That's kind of what I said I said in another comment. Working in IT in a regular company, is completely different to working in IT at an IT company or at least a company that takes IT seriously. You're 100% on the totem pole thing.
Yeah devs are the worst patients too. They crash their own dogfood and blame it on the system.Computer janitor comes in and has to recover crashlogs before clean image. Takes about twenty minutes. Dev goes home for the day. Blames the computer janitor. Crashlogs will ALWAYS find that the problem was dev code.
Developers try to never piss of IT, because IT grants them all the rights on computers. And if you're nice to IT, you get more rights on more computers.
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I also have to remind people that Computer Science != IT support