[124369] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Finding content in your job title
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe)
Wed Mar 31 01:20:26 2010
From: "Joe" <jbfixurpc@gmail.com>
To: "'Jorge Amodio'" <jmamodio@gmail.com>,
"'Steve Bertrand'" <steve@ibctech.ca>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:19:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <z2z202705b1003302047t1cfaa8efi3eda10f1a3db2310@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
What I find most amusing in the field of networking is the terms and =
titles
various companies place upon them. Titles like "Infrastructure =
specialist",
"Network analyst", and "Senior Specialist" often have me giggling as to =
the
real meaning/position in a job posting. I think the funniest postings I =
see
are the ones where obviously someone in a HR role posts the position and
lumps together different aspects of the role trying to be filled, such =
as
"Cisco MS Exchange expert" or "Firewall SQL Expert". Needless to say =
those
are not titles I would be boasting about or would care to advertise. In
short the last business card I handed out simply had the title MIS Dept. =
Its
hard enough to explain some of the aspects of network engineering to my =
wife
let alone a description of such on a business card. On one occasion my
mother in law asked if I could get a discount on large amounts of food, =
I
asked why she thought I could do such and her reply was "well you work =
with
Sysco, a food services company"..... Needless to say it took a bit of =
time
to explain that sysco was not cisco.
Perhaps a brief description on the back of the card? Lol...=20
Regards.
-Joe
