I'm an engineer, this is true lol

I'm currently the only engineer/ scientist in my research lab without at least a master's and most, including my boss as a woman with a PhD in biomedical engineering, go by their first names and are super chill. They like seeing pictures of my puppy and laugh when I threaten to throw lab equipment out the window for not working.

In college of course we used Dr or professor but the STEM teachers were way more chill about the energy with it. They know they have nothing to prove in their field but the arts ones seem to need to jerk themselves off with the title since they have a lower bar of entry.