You do what for a living?

[Globalti]

Eh oop Norm, with your job and my Nigerian experience we ought to be able to put together a nice little BUSINESS PROPOSITION....

My title is Export Sales Executive, a post term for sales gofer.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I am a CRC (Tier II) - as well as being an Associate Professor.

 

[c2c]

Corrugator Lead Operator........... ????

 

[tyred]

I'm a JOT-MON.




Jack of all trades, master of none.

 

[Yellow Fang]

My job title used to be software engineer. Some people had trouble understanding the term. They could understand civil engineer/mechanical engineer/electronics engineer, but not software engineer. I wasn't totally happy with the term myself, and usually said I was a computer programmer. I think the idea with software engineering is that instead of just jumping in and starting to hack code, we produced it properly. However, I only started feeling comfortable with the term when I realised that my code was controlling machinery, usually in an EPROM or other memory device.

 

[numbnuts]

My job title was straight forward, I was a Blacksmith, but most people got it wrong, “oh you shoe horses” “no that’s a Farrier”

 

[sunnyjim]

My job title used to be software engineer. Some people had trouble understanding the term. They could understand civil engineer/mechanical engineer/electronics engineer, but not software engineer. I wasn't totally happy with the term myself, and usually said I was a computer programmer. I think the idea with software engineering is that instead of just jumping in and starting to hack code, we produced it properly. However, I only started feeling comfortable with the term when I realised that my code was controlling machinery, usually in an EPROM or other memory device.

In the 1980s &90s when I had a job called Chief Electronics Engineer, software was included in the remit as a branch of electronics. Then it became a discipline on it's own. Then the electronics engineers became full time VHDL & Verilog code writers, so we're nearly back where we started. The problem with thinking of software engineering as a separate subject from electronics is that functionality is allocated between hardware & software too early. With 'Computer Programmer' you know where you stand - a computer is assumed at the start and definitely no assembler.

Now I'm called a 'Systems Engineer' which is nicely non-specific.

 

[darth vadar]

I used to work with three blokes who were continually trying to outdo each other with the amount of letters they had after their name.

Save to say, they were always ordering new supplies of business cards to reflect their new 'superior' status.

Tossers!!!

 

[Archie_tect]

My job title used to be software engineer....

Nobody mention "Systems or Software Architect" or I will stamp my foot.

Mrs A_T is a clinical cytogeneticist but I've learned to call her a clinical scientist, because it saves time.

 

[Paulus]

My official title is ETO. Which in the old days meant Train Driver. Engineering train operator.

 

[Adasta]

My job title was straight forward, I was a Blacksmith, but most people got it wrong, “oh you shoe horses” “no that’s a Farrier”

"I make halberds."

 

[Chilternrides]

Nobody mention "Systems or Software Architect" or I will stamp my foot.

Mrs A_T is a clinical cytogeneticist but I've learned to call her a clinical scientist, because it saves time.

Aha! We have "Customer Solutions Architects" at my place, which is all very well, but I can't for the life of me fathom why they keep contacting us hairy monkeys and asking "I have a customer who has a requirement for <insert product> ...is this something we can do?"

You're the one with the two-foot long business card matey, you answer it!

 

[PK99]

When I was a kid I got so fed up with my parents' friends asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up that I started telling them I was going to be a nuclear physicist. That would shut them up.

I was a nuclear physicist

 

[Fnaar]

My Irish uncle was a diesel fitter in a womens' clothes shop. He'd hold up items from the clothes rails, and say "diesel fitter".

 

[al78]

I hate it when I get asked what I do for a living, simply because it is very difficult to describe it quickly and in a way that people will understand.

I have tended to respond "weather risk management" which is what it broadly comes down too.