There are a huge number of engineers all over the world. This number is made more significant by their importance to the community they live in.
Not looking to give any merit whatsoever to sitcoms or dramas, or make them a barometer of the importance of people, but I'll definitely credit them with being a barometer of the public interest.
There are sitcoms about every possible profession. The law, medicine, nurses, detectives, vampires, PI's, etc. alright, dramatic, interesting.
Also about private practitioners, expats, hotel management, hotels not so well managed (Hotel Erotica, WHAT?) actors, managers, script-writers, teachers, school kids, book-keepers, drug-dealers, deadbeats, car mechanics.. er. not so dramatic now.
In short, about every single profession apart from that of an Engineer.
Not blaming them. Sigh. Who wants to watch a guy in glasses in oversized clothes and a stutter fabricate an IC? Or a boring short woman in badly matched clothes design tray towers?
Face it. We're boring people with boring jobs that no one (including us) are interested in knowing about.
ps: The Big Bang Theory is _not_ about Engineers. The show would fall flat if there were only Wolowitz and similar Wolowitz-like creatures in it.
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Aha, but you're buying into stereotype as well - glasses/oversized clothes/stutter, badly matched clothes.
It could also be that engineering falls into a certain elitist class, where noone really knows what engineering is, seeing as roughly 1 kid out of 35 would know exactly in school, and that every other profession at one point had a suffix of engineering attached to it.
Law? Social Engineering. Medicine? Bodily engineering. Vampires? Saguine suction engineering.
Vampiring is a profession?
Lol. Technicalities of speech. Vampiring may not be a profession; Vampire-killing is, nein?
I don't mind buying into the stereotype. Hell, I'm pretty fond of it.
Dilbert is about engineers, more or less. and theres an animated version.
and i think theres no show about engineers at work because real life is entertaining enough. From what i've seen work is more or less like dilbert, so once you get past the initial reaction to scream in horror and run away, it's pretty good fun.
Not exactly about a company filled with our types, but comes close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd
Panda's become a nee-rd,
Panda's become a nee-rd.
(Repeat x2 chorus)
true story:
this was last friday, bomb blasts and all. And this senior guy, who's like my boss's boss's boss or something was leaving. He tells us, "If you guys want to leave you should leave now, but if you want to stay you can stay".
@ Sickboy : Yeah, the IT Crowd is fair fare.
But again: Engineers aren't all IT, as much as IT'd like to think.
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