I will be resisting joining the VRCT for as long as is humanly possible. I am incandescent with anger with the fact that I have to lash out money to an organisation, that has set themselves up as some sort of elite body, in order to do the job I'm paid to do. The requirement to do this in ANY industry, let alone EBME is an utter disgrace. I have been deemed to be an acceptable EBME Engineer (or whatever title you want to assign) by my immediate superiors. They are the ones who monitor my performance, not some tin-pot committee of people I've never heard of, who have never heard of me, and are never likely to meet.