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Which profession close to engineer has the cheapest insurance?
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what sort of engineer?
chartered structural, or washing machine?A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
Sonographer.Don’t be a can’t, be a can.0
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A sonographer isn't an engineer, its a medical professional.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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You're going to pick a job on the basis of car insurance costs? That's a novel way of going about it.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
You might want to get yourself an actual job firstWhich profession close to engineer has the cheapest insurance?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71367529#Comment_713675290 -
It is a valid point.
Describing the same job in a different way can save money.
e.g. don't put "Confidence Trickster" put "Financial Advisor"
Here is what you want, on this very site:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/car-insurance-job-picker/I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science)0 -
Assuming you are genuinely an engineer and not just trying to commit fraud ... If you're a mechanical engineer, I would have thought that you're quite a good insurance risk in the eyes of the insurers - professional, sensible, logical, educated, and with an understanding of mechanics that would tend to imply you drive carefully and "sympathetically" with respect to the car.0
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Following the link in #9, almost every other Engineer definition gives a cheaper "quote" than Mechanical Engineer.
Perhaps that suggests that a ME is more likely to tinker with a car an cause issues? 0
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