Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-08 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 3/30/10 8:26 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd put 'janitor' on my business card for all I really care. Or on your T-shirt? Like the ones from NANOG 42 that read Custodians of the Internet? -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service -

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lamar Owen wrote: companies, Official Title is used to determine salary (or even whether you're an exempt employee or not). And the company's bylaws may invest particular Unless I misread the laws regarding this, in CA at least you still have to earn ~$40/hr or more (it varies and last I

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/7/2010 13:39, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: companies, Official Title is used to determine salary (or even whether you're an exempt employee or not). And the company's bylaws may invest particular Unless I misread the laws regarding this, in CA at least you still have

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/7/2010 13:39, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Unless I misread the laws regarding this, in CA at least you still have to earn ~$40/hr or more (it varies and last I read it was lowered a few $s) or more to be considered exempt, regardless of your job title When I was a

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: [ snip ] 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. How does the ops

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Beavis
Nathan, CIJ (Chief Internet Janitor) is kinda catchy ;) and this best describe my line of work. Keeping the company's Internet clean.. or when a mess is done already. But at the end of the day regardless of one's fancy title. there is still the work ... if you love it stay with it. my 0.002nc

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:39:09 -0700 From: Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net To: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Finding content in your job title Lamar Owen wrote: companies, Official Title is used to determine salary (or even whether you're an exempt employee

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 7, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:39:09 -0700 From: Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net To: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Finding content in your job title Lamar Owen wrote: companies, Official Title is used to determine salary (or even

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/7/2010 17:45, Gregory Hicks wrote: Actually, it doesn't matter how much you make per hour, the deciding factor between exempt and non-exempt is how many (if any) people you SUPERVISE. No supervision of others, then non-exempt. I don't think that is correct. Professionals do not

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:28 32PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: [ snip ] For instance, I like to present myself as a 'network engineer'. I have never taken formal education, don't hold any certifications (well, since

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Jimi Thompson
On 3/31/10 8:14 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: 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

RE: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Justin Horstman
-Original Message- From: Jimi Thompson [mailto:jimi.thomp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:20 AM To: Jorge Amodio; Jeroen van Aart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Finding content in your job title On 3/31/10 8:14 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 12:25:12 pm Justin Horstman wrote: [Your title] does however answer the question of Who is responsible for... which I believe to be extremely valuable. Then again, I might be weird. No, this is exactly how 'business at large' uses the idea of title. In some

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-01 Thread Jorge Amodio
I remember in the ol'days when everybody was fighting to have the postmaster title ... It was often associated with the possession of the root password, you had to feel the power !!! Cheers Jorge

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-01 Thread Brian Raaen
Did that mean that your job was to ensure that the guillotine was sharpened and engineered securely? -- -- Brian Raaen Network Engineer bra...@zcorum.com On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Jens Link wrote: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: For instance, I like to

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14:52PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, This is perhaps a rather silly question, but one that I'd like to have answered. I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from cool, to

RE: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:st...@ibctech.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:15 PM To: nanog@nanog.org nanog list Subject: Finding content in your job title How does the ops community feel about using this designation? Is it intrusive or offensive to those

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Mulholland
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Hi all, This is perhaps a rather silly question, but one that I'd like to have answered. I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from

RE: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Olsen, Jason
From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:st...@ibctech.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:15 PM Subject: Finding content in your job title 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

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:19:26 -0400 Joe jbfixu...@gmail.com wrote: short the last business card I handed out simply had the title MIS Dept. Its Heh. Reminds me of the place I worked where the least knowledgeable, least experienced and least liked person was put in charge of MIS. If anyone had

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Laurens Vets
This is perhaps a rather silly question, but one that I'd like to have answered. I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from cool, to high-priority, to plain unimaginable. Now, after 10 years, I reflect back on

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14:52PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Now, after 10 years, I reflect back on what I've done, and what I do now. To me, if a business is loose-knit with no clear job descriptions or titles (ie. too small to have CXO etc), I feel that a business

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Roland Perry
In article r2i877585b01003310746z930ef004w54e76adc3ca3...@mail.gmail.com, Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com writes Be careful where you get the examples to model yourself upon. For instance, you are in Canada and I think it is actually illegal to call yourself and engineer unless you

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:14:52 EDT, Steve Bertrand said: 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. Our payroll system was overhauled a few years

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Steve Bertrand wrote: I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from cool, to high-priority, to plain unimaginable. Now, after 10 years, I reflect back on what I've done, and what I do now. To

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jim Mercer
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:34:58PM -0500, Jorge Amodio wrote: Ok, let see. In several countries the use of the title engineer applies to people that achieved a certain technical degree, I'm not sure that applies uniformly but in Latin America using the engineer title without having achieved

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:46 -0400 Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote: i think my title ended up being Systems and Network Engineering Manager. So you were the SANE Manager? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/|

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread George Imburgia
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: I've had the occasional whinge from pedants that complain that 'Engineer' is a controlled term and the state should take action on my use of it, and I point out to them (a) not in my field, yet, and (b) it was the Commonwealth of Virginia

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jorge Amodio
Perhaps the appropriate approach if the title is internet related is to call for a BoF at IETF, setup a WG to work on a standards titles draft, get it published as an RFC, vest the authority on IANA and start a PDP at ICANN to determine who can obtain and ware the title and how much has to pay for

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Randy Bush
if it was not so long, and if jp biz processes were not so confusing to clueless gaijin, i would ask for just another bozo on this bus randy

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jens Link
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: 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. Hey, network engineer is good. Some time back someone gave me

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Oliver Gorwits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 08:32, Andrew Mulholland wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Larry Stites
Finding content in my job title... hmm maybe I can change mine to 'Gopher'. (Go-pher, Go Fer, as in Going For, to get, fetch...) Speak to me in 'engineer-ese' : (functionality) : I interpret and 'go for' the hardware that fills the requirement. Come to think of it maybe that's a good name for a

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Larry Sheldon wrote: So I just stayed with the cards I had that said Associate Director for Telecommunications and Computers. That's nice, so you can call yourself a Director ;-) What's up with the overuse of the term President in job titles, Vice President of Engineering, Product

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jorge Amodio
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.

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Larry Stites wrote: Come to think of it maybe that's a good name for a corporation; Gopher IT. That would unnecessarily confuse us 1 and a half human who still use gopher. :-(

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeroen van Aart wrote: What happened to titles such as programmer (or code monkey if your prefer, maybe a PC issue?), network administrator, systems administrator, systems analyst, information analyst? Those titles still exist, but after you read enough job postings for

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14:52PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, This is perhaps a rather silly question, but one that I'd like to have answered. I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles that should go on my business card. They went from cool, to

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Nathan Ward
On 31/03/2010, at 4:26 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.03.30 23:20, Jorge Amodio wrote: I'd say that probably around here for those like me that have been in operations/engineering management positions we don't give a squat about what title your biz card says you have, your actions and

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.30 23:22, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:14:52PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, This is perhaps a rather silly question, but one that I'd like to have answered. I'm young in the game, and over the years I've imagined numerous job titles

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Jorge Amodio
Ok, let see. In several countries the use of the title engineer applies to people that achieved a certain technical degree, I'm not sure that applies uniformly but in Latin America using the engineer title without having achieved that degree is illegal. In other places such Italy it does not only

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.30 23:34, Jorge Amodio wrote: Ok, let see. In several countries the use of the title engineer applies to people that achieved a certain technical degree, I'm not sure that applies uniformly but in Latin America using the engineer title without having achieved that degree is illegal.

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I did not mean to initiate a thread that turns into a joke. I'm quite serious. I guess I'm curious to get an understanding from others who work in a small environment that have no choice but to 'classify' themselves. Unless we're talking

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Alastair Johnson
Steve Bertrand wrote: I did not mean to initiate a thread that turns into a joke. I'm quite serious. I guess I'm curious to get an understanding from others who work in a small environment that have no choice but to 'classify' themselves. When I was in a similar role and situation to yourself

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Jorge Amodio
that's right Steve, as I said before, what you do and how you do it, and in particular what do you contribute to the networking community will speak much better of yourself than any title you can imagine. Do you think that folks like Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, etc, etc, need a title

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 22:35, Steve Bertrand wrote: The feedback that I've received off-list has led me to believe that I just need to scratch the title, and have my name and number. Who cares what I do. Those who want to call/email me will have a purpose for doing so anyway ;) Post University I

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Anton Kapela
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: The title, Engineer, and its derivatives should be reserved for those individuals whose education and experience qualify them to practice in a manner that protects public safety. Strict use of the title serves ...fortunately for us (and

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 22:44, Alastair Johnson wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: I did not mean to initiate a thread that turns into a joke. I'm quite serious. I guess I'm curious to get an understanding from others who work in a small environment that have no choice but to 'classify' themselves. When I

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.30 23:47, Jorge Amodio wrote: that's right Steve, as I said before, what you do and how you do it, and in particular what do you contribute to the networking community will speak much better of yourself than any title you can imagine. Do you think that folks like Tim Berners-Lee,

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.30 23:50, Anton Kapela wrote: On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: The title, Engineer, and its derivatives should be reserved for those individuals whose education and experience qualify them to practice in a manner that protects public safety. Strict use of the

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Ken Chase
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:20:25PM -0500, Jorge Amodio said: I'd say that probably around here for those like me that have been in operations/engineering management positions we don't give a squat about what title your biz card says you have, your actions and performance speak by

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Painter
Steve Bertrand wrote: Not acceptable. I do not want this. I read and review messages and documents from people who have *much* more experience than I do every single day, and whom I respect to the n'th degree. This isn't a vote count. I am _not_ an engineer, and do not need or desire the

RE: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Joe
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