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Originally Posted by cockerpunk View Post
it is an important distinction. if someone asks who i am, i would say a racer. if someone asks what i do, i would say im an engineer.

so why are they using the engineer? are they using it claim who they are, or what they do?

engineering is an action. not a persona. if you perform the action of engineer, you are engineering.
I don't disagree...entirely. Again it comes down to how you describe engineering. The man I mentioned doesn't plan or design programs he writes the code according to the project goal.

If I build something following the plan that someone else designed, am I the engineer, or are they?

By what you wrote above "performing the action of an engineer" do you mean to include designing a build or just doing the fabrication?
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