did you ever give your job a glamourous title

[roadrash]

Prompted by the recent job threads , did you ever give your job a more glamourous title,
I am a butcher by trade but when asked what I did for a living , I would say ....BOVINE SURGEON
My mate , said he was a VISION TECHNICIAN, hes a window cleaner.

cmon lets hear some others

 

[Mo1959]

Not so much a fancy title but my step mum obviously thought my job of prison officer didn't sound good enough so she would insist on telling everyone I was a police officer. I gave up correcting her in the end. Lol

 

[rich p]

My son is a butcher and one of the blokes who works for him had to go to poncey functions with his wife. He got fed up with the 'look' when he answered the "What do you do?" question, and started saying that 'he worked with animals'.

 

[Drago]

Nah, I've always said it how it is. Gardener, factory monkey, bouncer, soldier, bodyguard, copper. People and organisations that glam up the names of mundane jobs should be sacked for having too much time on their hands.

 

[jefmcg]

Going the other way, I know the head of an IT for a firm of stockbrokers whose business card reads "Chief Pointy Head".

And when my mum's law firm took over the property next door, whose most recent tenant was a "massage parlour", I used to tell people "my mother solicits in a brothel'

Edit: should have refreshed before posting, as both @User14044 and I are "going the other way"

 

[Yellow Fang]

When I finished my HND Software Engineering, I felt it was rather pretentious calling ourselves software engineers rather than computer programmers. However, I have a friend who calls himself a computer scientist.

 

[jonny jeez]

When I was a kid and an estate agent, I used to tell people at parties that I was a heroin dealer.

They nearly always answered "really?" When I would admit "no I'm an estate agent but you get more respect when you tell people you are a drug dealer".

 

[jefmcg]

This was a big thing in the seventies. "Sanitation Engineer" and "Garbologist" spring to mind.

Also popular with young men at parties. Two I recall
Me: "What do you do?"
Him: "I write"
Me: "Oh. What do you write?"
Him: "Software"
Me: "...."

and

Me: "What do you do?"
Him: "I'm a cartoonist"
Me: "Where are you published?"
Him: "Oh, I am not" <before the internet>
Yeah, he was 35 year old junior civil servant.

 

[Spinney]

Not quite the same, but when I worked for BAe on Tornadoes and Jaguars, there was a story that one of the test pilots used to sometimes put his job description down as 'testing demolition equipment'.

 

[Brandane]

When I was a Police Officer, we used to go on Christmas Party nights out at local venues where the DJ would introduce the various groups present, and we would tell him that we were pest controllers from a fictitious company. It wasn't exactly a mistruth, and we didn't want our true identity known for obvious reasons.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

My mate , said he was a VISION TECHNICIAN, hes a window cleaner.

I've heard the same job refered to as a 'transparent wall maintenance engineer' before.

I tend to tell folk I'm a data analyst as my real job title is far too cool for them to handle.. plus I don't want a work conversation when I'm not getting paid

 

[ufkacbln]

I once saw a Staff Nurse described as a 'Mid hierarchical patient care facilitator'

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Grand Poobah.

 

[ufkacbln]

The Armed Services have a colorful set of descriptions

In the Navy, any Medical Branch rating was affectionately known as a "Scab lifter"

 

[jefmcg]

Apparently Qantas pilots call the flight attendants "biscuit chuckers"