Worked in France, title engineer very controlled: Advantage was you said you where an engineer you pulled women the same way a doctor did
(ok I was young and they thought engineers had money )
Austria, the apartment door bells have the Ing in front of the Surname, just like a Dr.
Germany, well Germany you need to spend years in uni and be a doctor of eng before you get anywhere, look at say Luftansa manager titles, it is scary the amount of Dr's etc (so your working life spent paying of student debts)
Back to UK and yes I was back to level of respect with the photocopier repair man, so job title became "In aviation business" much better starting line
Why did I leave europe. MONEY
You can call me "chief bottle washer" as long as you pay me enough.
Respect/disrepect for title does not pay the bills and to be honest when I get business cards followed by all those titles I can only but smile to myself and think pl**ker.
Regarding the bank registering the engineers as semi-skilled. Actually all the bank is worried about is money that you are paid, not title, so if you think respect for engineer is going to get you a bigger house loan, dream on. Graduates of nearly all titles they give leeway as on average they earn more in the longer term so the bank has a better prospect of getting bigger fees on transactions (Dr in ancient greek classics etc excepted)
And me, I am a BEng(Aero) and other stuff, but that gets you only your first job (and you start as a run around for the more mature engineers as nothing as dangerous as a newly minted graduate who thinks he/she knows it all)
Just respect everybody, regardless of title (except divorce lawyers)
