Insurance

I was speaking to a friend recently who was organizing an event. Get got a bill from an organization for over $3000 for public liability insurance for the bill – for a 45 minute event. So he did a bit of research, and found out that the person who sent him the bill did not own the asset that they wanted to charge insurance for. The owner of the asset was able to confirm that the event my friend was organizing was covered under their own policy. Hmm… I am just wondering if the organisation that sent the bill out receives a percentage of the bill…

Meetings…

I have a couple of meetings today… One at Guildford, and the other at Rosehill. The Rosehill one is a pain as it is a right hand turn across the main road. Thankfully the traffic is normally stopped at lights making it easier, but even so it is not one of my most favourite intersections. [Come to think of it, I hate right hand turns across traffic no matter where they are. Anywhere.]

The Rosehill meeting could turn out to be an important one… They want to do a lot of things, and I want to support them with this as much as I can. They were one of my first clients when I set up the business, and through a weeks consulting I was able to prove that they didn’t really need to do what they were wanting to do at that time. But now things have changed, I hope.

Job Descriptions

Another cute article on the SMH www site talks about job description titles. Working for myself, I can call myself all sorts of things… “Chief Engineer”, “CEO”, “CIO”, “Owner”, “Consultant”, “Principal Engineer”, “Web Master” and “Office Manager”. The list goes on. The article lists some of the strange job titles that are around. It also points out that many job titles would be illegal in many other countries, since we here in Oz do not restrict ourselves to requiring engineers to have teriary qualifications.

I am an “IT Professional”… How come? Well, I belonged to a union – “The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers”. And they basically joined with the “IT Professionals Association”. As part of the deal you could join the other organisation for zero cost. So I became a member of the ITPA, and got a certificate from them saying I was an IT Professional. Totally bogus, but at the time I needed it for work. Don’t Ask 🙂

I have a badge in my room… From MIT in Boston. It says…
“NOW I AM AN ENGINEER, WHEN DO I GET TO DRIVE A TRAIN”