You miss one point ALTRAV.

An arts degree is the bureaucrats preferred qualification for a job as a pen pusher in the public service, the preferred sheltered workshop for most of them.

Hassy, gotcha.

BTW, sorry in my haste, in my previous post I wrote SR, it should have been SM (for Shadow Minister).
SR, now it's your turn you most pompous of the pompous.
It's a good thing you are not quite as articulate or knowledgeable as you may believe.
I want to bring your attention to something that even though may not be relevant to this topic, but never-the-less needs to be conveyed to you as soon as possible.
I have assumed that you have been made aware of Josephus's link regarding the fact that all this GW, CC rubbish is beginning to unwind in your faces as we write.
NASA has just admitted, and shown us with satellite pics, that areas once thought to be dying are now greening up.
Go figure, they too have admitted they were wrong!
HA!
Here's the link, read it and weep!

https://summit.news/2020/01/09/glacier-park-in-montana-set-to-remove-glaciers-will-all-be-gone-by-2020-signs/

Let's see what you've got as a come-back on this latest round of debunking.
You guys keep preaching the facts.
I'll keep stating the truth!
And the truth shall set you free!

Shadow Minister,

You have never studied Arts things like history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, etc., but you say you know all about that stuff. We know you have never studied Arts things because you told us that you have a BSc(Eng), BCom & MBA. Unless you want us to believe that engineering and business colleges are teaching the scholarly Arts courses.

Please do us all a favour and put on your overalls, grab your toolbox, and get yourself down to doing what engineers are vocationally trained to do.

Hasbeen,

An Arts degree is what one does when one wants to study things like history, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, etc. All the things that you do not know anything about.

Hassy, SM, I don't know why you bother with Mr O.
If he wants to believe that an arts degree is somehow of value to the public, compared to engineers, let him.
He will be alone on his soap box, and he knows it, he is fighting for his very existence and worth.
An arts degree is like pre-school compared with an engineering degree.
I know I started an engineering degree and when I got to calculus I said that's it, I know how smart I am and I was not that smart.
So I did what came naturally to me from childhood, and became an industrial designer, specialising in automotive design/engineering.
You see as it turns out, engineers actually work under me.
Many people believe engineers are designers.
They are human computers/calculators, the job of designing, the creation of ideas is where the designer comes into it, then gives the design to an engineer to assess it's structural integrity.
These days we have computer programs that do this thereby sidestepping engineers.
They have not yet, nor will they ever create anything, even a computer program that is capable of duplicating or replacing a "designer".
But I stress one important thing, you can LEARN to become an engineer, you CAN'T LEARN to become a designer.
It has to be natural to you and it just comes naturally.
As the saying goes;"You can learn to paint, but you can't learn to be an artist"!

ALTRAV,

Guess what, I have a degree in mechanical engineering, which I did before pursuing my interests in Arts.

If you weren't able to get past first year calculus then there must be something wrong with you.

One thing you are right about is that one does not need to have a degree in engineering to be an engineer. Doing a degree in engineering is one of the great regrets in my life. Absolute waste of time, energy and money.