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Re: Finding content in your job title
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:14:45 -0500
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.
[ X-Operational_Content = 0 ] Can't resist. When I read your message it brought back to my memory a nice guy that used to work for me eons ago, very clever, smart and hands-on, he had a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. One day, we had some sort of outage and I found him in the "computer room" sitting in front of one of the racks with some routing gear, I still have that image in my memory he looked like he was doing some sort of group therapy with the routers, I couldn't resist and told him "Hey Joey, Freud won't help you, get your butt off of the chair and follow the default procedure, power cycle the damn beast". There were also several folks with various degrees in Physics, experts on blowing up stuff. Again, IMHO, in this field a title may help or may provide others a relative idea where you fit in a large organization, or help the HR folks know how much to put on your paycheck or what kind of benefits/perks go associated with that level, but I still believe that substance is more important. Regards Jorge COOK Chief Old Operations Knucklehead
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