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So what do you call yourself and why how do you justify it ?
Not that I care what you want to be called but would love to hear as seems to be these days everyone wants some kind of grandiose title but really why ?
 
Heating Engineer if someone asks the question.
I am not gas qualified, but hate it when I get the remark - " he's a heating engineer " when someone refers to a gas guy who often is useless. What they are saying is that I am just a plumber.
Really though, I hate the way most jobs in this country are described in snobby imaginative terms, designed to impress. Everybody seems to be a manager or an assistant manager.
 
Plumber, heating engineer, gas/ service engineer, that guy who does wata and gas stuff.......... All the same value in my book so call me what you like 🙂


Bathroom fitter, kitchen fitter ..... These titles should be banned.
 
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Plumber, very simple!

Specialist bathroom and kitchen fitter always makes me laugh especially when it's followed by bricklayer and gardener!
 
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I TBH prefer heating engineer, it's what i spent most of my years on site doing and what i prefer.
Service engineer floats my boat too, plumber well I'll put that 3rd.
 
Mechanical supervisor. Is my job title that's what's on my pay slips, but I'd guess that's exactly the sort of tittle this thread was created for..

but you can call me Al
 
liquid and gas containment specialist but seriously im a plumber which covers everything all the rest are of shoots of my trade and that includes electricians most of whom were plumbers originally
 
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I think of myself as a Plumber, and thats what I tell people. But i guess im also a Director and Sole Shareholder as i own and run a Ltd company. I like Plumber though
 
Don't like being called plumber. I put in a lot of hard work, money, time and effort into my technical knowledge and understanding of heating systems.

Plumber feels to me a starting point in a long career, and different titles to me are a way of identifying people who have gained extensive knowledge in certain areas in order to add something to the industry/employer.

As unjust as it may sound that's my view on it
 
Don't like being called plumber. I put in a lot of hard work, money, time and effort into my technical knowledge and understanding of heating systems.

Plumber feels to me a starting point in a long career, and different titles to me are a way of identifying people who have gained extensive knowledge in certain areas in order to add something to the industry/employer.

As unjust as it may sound that's my view on it

Theres always one usually a heating engineer who thinks he is much better than others this is just snobbery some gsr guys cant even fit a bathroom or 1st fix a house but can service a boiler WOW..brum
 
plumber and gas fitter I rarely do gas repairs more through choice as I am slow as I don't have a vast experience in it so don't like to call myself a gas engineer
 

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