Finding content in your job title

Wed Mar 31 05:19:26 UTC 2010

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... 

Regards.
-Joe