My late husband started off as a hardware engineer (when your average computer would fill a small room) then became a software engineer and analyst as well. He combined all 3 fields in his work. He had done an electrical engineering apprenticeship before he joined the RAF where he got HND in Electronics. When I asked him once how he would describe his job he said, "Oh just say I'm in computers." and his mantra was, "Well, you have to know where to kick it."
