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Originally Posted by Slava
I sympathize with trades people for this exact reason. You have journeyman carpenters/plumbers/etc. and then you have some guy with tools and a truck who also says he’s a carpenter/plumber/etc. but hasn’t got the ticket. We run into the exact same thing in finance, and it drives me up the wall.
I don’t know the solution. You can’t just hold yourself out as a lawyer despite having an office and some yellow legal pads, and you can’t just declare yourself to be a doctor because you took some anatomy and have internet access, nonetheless that’s basically the equivalent.
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Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer are all self regulated professions defined by government acts which define the use of those titles. The question is how far should these types of protections exist because they act as rent seeking and create barriers to employment.
APEGAs method of recognizing foreign trained engineers leaves a lot to be desired and hurts peoples ability to work. So you need a very good public safety defense if you are going to restrict titles and scopes of practice for people without a designation.