--On 28 January 2003 10:42 -0600 Andy Putnins <putnins@lett.com> wrote:
How does one find a "clueful" person to hire? Can you recognize one by their hat or badge of office? Is there a guild to which they all belong? If one wants to get a "clue", how does one find a master to join as an apprentice?
In the long term one might presume market forces would provide better answers than speculation & ...
Society requires that some kinds of engineers be licensed
... economic theory suggests that licensing etc. is only a good idea when the externalities of failure cases exceed the benefits of licensing by more than the costs of its imposition (including barriers to entry etc.). I do not think we have come to the point where this has been demonstrated yet. Note licensing does not have a 100% success record in protecting against failure (viz. Andersen).
This is therefore a request for all of those who possess this "clue" to write down their wisdom and share it with the rest of us, so we can
This industry has been pretty good at that, despite recent economic circumstances militating against it. No argument there. Alex Bligh