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Your job title vs what you actually do.

M

Martin

Lifer
Often the two don't really match, so I thought it'd be entertaining if people posted their job titles and then a description of what they actually do.

My title is "Women's Issues Special Projects Officer", but what I actually do is help with data management in my school's Alumni office (its a part time job). That means making/populating/programming databases to automate things they used to do by hand as well as other odds and ends. One of the bigger things has been making a db of potential women prof/lecturer candidates, so that they can increase women's participation in engineering, hence the "women's issues" part of the job title.
 
I don't even know what my official title is but my unofficial title is "Pee On".

Pretty good description of my job.
 
title:
Undergrad Researcher at a BioMechanics lab at Berkeley

truth:
Professor's bitch for a semester
 
"Research Assistant"

Real job is basically a secretary (two more weeks until I'm done with that sh|t). I don't do much research, unless posting here counts as research.
 
Title: White Trailor Trash/ Assistant Receptionist 😀


realistically i do the accouting for our Toronto and Corporate Head office.

 
Official Title: Online Marketing Coordinator

What I do: Just that, actually. I do other stuff as well, but my main job fits with the title.
 
Officially: "Student"
Actually: Semi-paid contract IT jack-of-all-trades. Hardware, administration, deployment, programming, I do it all on a regular basis. Oh, and I also attend a calculus class.
 
I'm really a Windows/Linux/AIX systems administrator, but my "official" title is Advisory IT Specialist. That title is about as generic and meaningless as they come.... you know that my job has SOMETHING to do with technology, but that's about it.
 
Official: Coordinator of Computer Applications

it kind of fits, i do mostly programming but i have MANY other tasks in my req's.
 
i already told you: i deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. i have people skills; i am good at dealing with people. can't you understand that? what the hell is wrong with you people??!?
 
Originally posted by: anxi80
i already told you: i deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. i have people skills; i am good at dealing with people. can't you understand that? what the hell is wrong with you people??!?
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about time someone posted that 😀
 
my title is Multiple Service Support Field Engineer, it fits, I work on robotics, pc's, laptops, printers, all sorts of networking equipment, and occasionally software troubleshooting.

my favorite resume padding though is a Hydro-Ceramic Engineer.....primary function = dish washer.
 
Business analyst is my official title. What I actually do is play Mr. Fix-it for a brokerage firm. When one of our financial advisors out in the field screws something up and makes a seven-figure mistake, I have to figure out what the hell he did and fix it while trying to further refine policy and procedure so it doesn't recur and educate him how to do it next time. I have 100% job security since if you've ever had the job of idiot-proofing something you realize it's a never-ending task, since if you no matter how well you do they'll just go and invent a better idiot.
 
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