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"Ooh that's really cool" is not what I'd expect to hear after saying I'm a software engineer
Software Engineers are highly paid. Many women want a guy that can provide.
Don’t discriminate. Many men want a guy that can provide too.
*provide money.
That's what "provide" already refers to..
i think you mean provide an indepth deep dive into the life and works of Rayner Werner Fassbinder, experimental German filmmaker
Clearly.
whats exactly what "provide" means
Someone is into OP or whoever is in gold, at least for now. Even if you don't find it cool, flatter to keep conversation and interest. It could be genuine as in finding interest in anything your crush is into interesting, or be just practical.
Also, people are attractive/interesting when they speak about stuff they're passionate about. Lots of people will listen to you blab on about something they know nothing about or care nothing about if you interest them in your delivery.
how so? my experience is that people tend to be impressed and intrigued and they hear I'm a software engineer
"software engineer" is such a stupid, shallow and arrogant description. I'm not an engineer and neither are you.
I'm a software developer, developer for short. All these fake "engineers" and "scientists" tend to be arrogant stuck up pricks.
Dude, you're a code monkey. You're not creating autocad graphs for Airbus, so get off your high horse.
A developer is one that just codes. An engineer is one that mocks up their feature, leads meetings to explain what they are going to do and debates with others about the proposed implementation, codes it, tests it thoroughly, then answers any questions about what they made months later and diagnoses issues that QA found. Maybe you're just a code monkey, but my job is a lot more.
Yeah I'm an SW engineer and my job is 30% coding max. Equal part is requirements engineering (so translate sys reqs to sw reqs, ensure traceability and such), static code analysis and dev tests plus 10% change management. The last part is the most interesting part as this includes analysis of feasabilty, risk and impact assessment as well as proposing/reviewing sys reqs for new or existing features. Glad I'm not a sys dev though as they don't get to code at all.
Software developer and software engineer are two distinct roles though. They are conflated all too often.
https://www.comptia.org/blog/software-engineer-vs.-software-developer
And I have a master’s in computer engineering, don’t get me started on what people think I do.
It's the literal job description in many cases.
tf you talking about? the engineer engineers the solution and the developer develops it
It's something I write when I don't have anything else to say
It might not be genuine interesting
tbh if I hear someone is into tech I'm interested
like yay someone with interests!
and others who aren't interested in tech are interested anyway because what we do sounds like some sort of witchcraft to them loll