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Re:Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living by macNchz on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:34AM (#35523609)
For what its worth, this is called “occupational prestige” and sociologists run public opinion studies to create actual lists like that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_prestige
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Re:Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living by rufus_foreman on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:41AM (#35524338)
The actual rankings from that list from high prestige to low (there's no software engineer listed, just computer programmer or computer systems analyst):

Doctor

Lawyer

Software Engineer (if you mean "Computer Systems Analysts and Scientists")

Teacher (Postsecondary school)

Architect

Engineer

Executive

Teacher (Elementary or Secondary Scool)

Software Engineer (if you mean "Computer Programmers")

Teacher (Kindergarten)

Manager

Designer

Artist

Driver

Waiter

Bartender

Cleaner

Which gives a clue why you should never call yourself a computer programmer.

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