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Subject:Re: Finding a good job title From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 03 Feb 2001 16:38:12 -0800
Tom Murrell wrote:
>
>
> But mostly *I* don't care what you call me as long as the checks are good and
> the work is interesting. <g>
>
I agree. At my present position, I didn't get a title until the
business cards were printed. I was too busy to care, too.
It may be a mark of insecurity that tech writers seem to spend an
inordinate amount of time worrying about their job titles. I don't
hear many programmers (at least, not many good ones) becoming
obsessive about titles. One programmer even identified himself as
"code monkey" in his e-mail signature (I suggested that, in the same
spirit, company officers should be indentified as "Alpha Male,
Finance" and "Alpha Female, Operations," but, for some reason, the
idea didn't take).
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Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
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