Job title? Vote please
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That's me. I'm the CEO, VP, MVP, VPIT, Secretary, Janitor, Scapegoat, Etc... I do it all man! Not sure what my title would be other than... crazy. If that's the case then I'm on a Crazy Train and I wanna Bark at the Moon. I'm okay with that as I know CG will most certainly join me in either of those past times.:-D Do you know how many times I've had to fire myself or just quit? My boss pisses me off all the time and I quit on him all the time. The jerk that he is but no matter how hard I try I cannot get away from the guy it's like he follows me around or something.;)
It's when you start talking back to the boss that you should start worrying.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's when you start talking back to the boss that you should start worrying.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Who's the boss???:~:-D
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It's when you start talking back to the boss that you should start worrying.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Who's the boss???:~:-D
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile?
We already have occupation. I never find job titles particularly enlightening - my "official" job title is something like "Programmer II", which sounds like a bad game from the early '80s. The title i list ranges from the generic "Programmer" to the descriptive "Lord of the Codes" to the even more descriptive "Resident Moron". Company affiliations would be kinda cool, but yeah, you might be opening up a can of worms there. It'd be interesting to see how many people just left it blank...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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...and is she watching? :rolleyes:
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
Tirelessly. She knows I'm vile and despicable.:->
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile?
We already have occupation. I never find job titles particularly enlightening - my "official" job title is something like "Programmer II", which sounds like a bad game from the early '80s. The title i list ranges from the generic "Programmer" to the descriptive "Lord of the Codes" to the even more descriptive "Resident Moron". Company affiliations would be kinda cool, but yeah, you might be opening up a can of worms there. It'd be interesting to see how many people just left it blank...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
I tend to think of myself as the "Dark Overlord" but I've heard it frightens my clients so I took it off my business cards.:vegemite::-D
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Good one. However, many put such information in their signature and profile anyway :D Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Senior Software Engineer SilverKey.us - Egypt Branch
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Does "Male Prostitute" violate the kid sister rule?
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
what they actually (officially) did during their day.
I am just a lowly Jr. programmer with no training or responsibility, no one important, no one to pay attention to, these aren't the droids you are looking for... move along... move along.... ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile?
We already have occupation. I never find job titles particularly enlightening - my "official" job title is something like "Programmer II", which sounds like a bad game from the early '80s. The title i list ranges from the generic "Programmer" to the descriptive "Lord of the Codes" to the even more descriptive "Resident Moron". Company affiliations would be kinda cool, but yeah, you might be opening up a can of worms there. It'd be interesting to see how many people just left it blank...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
Shog9 wrote:
Programmer II
you got me beat by an I! Official titles don't tell you much. My usual response to someone asking about the importance of titles, I tell them about my first job. My title was really "Jr. Programmer" because of the rate ($5.25 an hour -- $6.90 when I left 5+ years later). Anyhow at that job my responsibilities were: Design, program, train, debug, test, validate, create UI's and reports, tank volume error reporting analysis (probability of a leaking tank based on changes unaccounted for and above mean error), AI price analysis and cost prediction and competition analysis/prediction and sales/volume analysis/prediction. Basically, it was all me, no matter what, everything dealing with computers. I even rewired the building after the electrician mis-wired it (how can you get a twin-ax cable wrong 75% of the time? there are only two wires!! that should be at least 50/50!!). I setup payrolls, and complex communications systems to all the C-Stations for sales downloads. And that was a Jr. Programmer.... So Jr. Programmer has been a long-standing joke with me.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I tend to think of myself as the "Dark Overlord" but I've heard it frightens my clients so I took it off my business cards.:vegemite::-D
code-frog wrote:
but I've heard it frightens my clients
Do you want the clients that would not be frightened, or worse, might actually be excited to see that in your title?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Who's the boss???:~:-D
Tony Danza?
We are certainly uncertain at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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its an awesome idea , can figure out a student from experienced persons
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Quartz. wrote:
can figure out a student from experienced persons
You know, some students are really more exoerienced than an average developer. Just a thought for ya ;)
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
It would seem that the idea is being well-received, Chris. Go for it! For the record, my title is Utility Systems Support Specialist, whatever that means. They made it up on the spot when they hired me. What it seems to boil down to is, I do anything that no one else has the time or knowledge to do. I can live with that, but it does tend to make the old resume rather tedious to read. And it doesn't fit on a business card...:sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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That's me. I'm the CEO, VP, MVP, VPIT, Secretary, Janitor, Scapegoat, Etc... I do it all man! Not sure what my title would be other than... crazy. If that's the case then I'm on a Crazy Train and I wanna Bark at the Moon. I'm okay with that as I know CG will most certainly join me in either of those past times.:-D Do you know how many times I've had to fire myself or just quit? My boss pisses me off all the time and I quit on him all the time. The jerk that he is but no matter how hard I try I cannot get away from the guy it's like he follows me around or something.;)
The best title I ever heard was CEICODS - belonged to a friend of mine whose parents bought a restaurant for her to run, then wouldn't let her run it. They ran it into the ground, instead. She referred to herself as the Chief Executive in Charge Of Diddley-Squat. I rather like it...:-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Quartz. wrote:
can figure out a student from experienced persons
You know, some students are really more exoerienced than an average developer. Just a thought for ya ;)
:badger:
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Until 1995 I was a senior programmer with a major trainsportation company doing projects that many would kill for. But life took a twist and at present have my own Home Improvement company and am trying to cram my head with 12 years worth of missed technology and get back into the IT field as an entry level programmer. Reality....What a concept! Mike
Theres light at the end of the tunnel. Lord I hope it ain't no train!
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I was thinking the other day that when talking to other members or reading posts I have no idea what everyone actually does. Would it be interesting to have an optional job title and company associated with your profile? I was just thinking it would be cool to see what companies everyone's posting from and what they actually (officially) did during their day. Who's a student? Who's an architect? Who are the hardworking, intelligent and extremely good looking site administrators? Vote: 1 = bad idea, 5 = good idea for Job title to be added. Company name is, I realise, a little more tricky since many companies don't want their employees' posts associated with their company.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I'd actually think you should have a text field for a paragraph description of your job/work, instead of just job title (although I think that's a good idea too). I hang out in academic science circles on occasion, and there are constantly plenty of science mixers, teas, receptions, lunches, and the like happening all the time, at which everyone always has their 30 second stump speech at the ready. I always joke that it reminds me of dogs meeting one another, sniffing each others butts, but it actually is a pretty good system. It really does work in terms of networking and quickly gravitating towards where you need to be in a motley crew of researchers. Basically, I think it's a great idea, and you should have all three: job title, company, and job description.
