Andy: "You mean I should drop my PhD? ;-) " It (sometimes) doesn't help much! See the post by Rich Rogan http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=30388
Back to the initial point: the important thing is that if you are having a medical emergency, then you want someone with at least a base medical training to be there - a set of common skills and understandings about how the body functions and how it can be put right when it goes wrong. I guess there are two problems: 1) which skills and knowledge comprise this field; and 2) how can we get people outside of us to agree on what skills and knowledge are required so that they don't start making the main criteria as "must have 5 years C GUI experience" I get the impression that the community is quite happy to deal with skills rather than roles but this often falls over when recruiters are being dealt with. Quite often, they need a nice single title to summarise everything because they deal with so many different roles. Stepping outside of the norm can cause serious problems in getting jobs if you're not perceived as a guru (just talking from my own experience here - I sincerely hope other people's is better) Well, we're supposed to be experts in people's experiences - why don't we find out how we really are perceived in the wider world so we can address any discrepancies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40833 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
