The status of engineers

Abstract

A Polish colleague once confided his surefire technique with girls. ‘At home’ he said, ‘if I fancy a girl I tell her I am an engineer. In Britain, I only let that fact out when I want to brush her off.’

Citation

Jury, G. (1969), "The status of engineers", Education + Training, Vol. 11 No. 9, pp. 354-355. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016191