With steel toed boots, you know you have a real job. As opposed to ballet dancers, say. (Although ballet dancers in training probably have them. No, wait, they probably weed them out by not giving them protective boots…)
I’ve gone downhill. In the military they gave me steel toed boots. When I was a summer intern, they gave me anti-static slippers. Now - nothing. This trend indicates that my dream of becoming a P-funk bass player won’t come true anytime soon.

Heh. Try working in a field where most of one’s sources are giving lengths and widths in chains. Chains, fer gad’s sake! (But I’m a historian, so it’s not that much of a surprise. )

i think free steel toed boots should become a de rigeur initiation gift to any job, especially a yuppie one. anyway, congratulations!

I was going to ask what “English units” were, but then I realised you meant Imperial units of measurement and quantity.
The Engleesh do not use these, you will be relieved or possibly jealous to hear, and when an engineer at $OLD_COMPANY tried to get us to check a calculation he had done in Ye Olde Voodoo we converted everything to le metric, calculated, and converted back (which procedure I vigourously recommend). It turned out, of course, that he had punned on pounds mass and pounds force and come out wrong by a slug’s worth of footsies per second per second.
Bonus points are available, though, if you manage to get a flow-rate of cubic furlongs per fortnight into an official report.