Larry Sheldon wrote:
So I just stayed with the cards I had that said Associate Director for Telecommunications and Computers.
That's nice, so you can call yourself a Director ;-) What's up with the overuse of the term "President" in job titles, Vice President of Engineering, Product Management... often these people appear to not have any real corporate presidential powers... Maybe it's because receptionists and secretaries are now called office managers and so the managers feel their title has become inflated. I agree with the misuse of the term "Engineer" in IT. I think it should only be used for the "official" protected title of civil engineer. Which I believe is a very respectable job. Sad but true, in IT too many people have some form of engineer in their job title but are almost totally clueless.
Which is about as void of meaning then and now as anything I have ever heard of.
What happened to titles such as programmer (or code monkey if your prefer, maybe a PC issue?), network administrator, systems administrator, systems analyst, information analyst? Greetings, Jeroen