[124961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Finding content in your job title
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Apr 7 23:34:38 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <w2md99aaed41004071328p4cc2e312u57ffcc24a56905b1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:03:32 -0400
To: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org >> nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:28 32PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> =
wrote:
>=20
> [ snip ]
>=20
>=20
>>=20
>> For instance, I like to present myself as a 'network engineer'. I =
have
>> never taken formal education, don't hold any certifications (well, =
since
>> 2001), and can't necessarily prove my worth.
>>=20
>> How does the ops community feel about using this designation?
>>=20
>=20
> FWIW, I was Commodore of Infrastructure when I worked for the =
President of
> The World.
Way back when, an organization I know of decided to "regularize" its =
titles and insisted that the computer center staff suggest proper =
titles. They didn't much like "Bit Pusher" or "Telecommunications Bit =
Pusher", but finally gave up when one woman insisted that her proper =
title was "Empress of the 8th Floor".
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
