When I met Udhay he said he "collects interesting people" which I thought always needed an appropriate job title, like whatever "sanitation engineer" is to garbage collector :)
When I met Sean Doyle, he said he preferred the title "Principle Architect" to "Principal Architect" which is a position I also aspire to... I think my Linked-in profile still lists me as "Running dog lackey of the capitalist elite" but as a running dog lackey of the capitalist elite I have long since stopped using Linked-in ck On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 6:18 AM Sean Doyle via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > My favorite job title is from an old Zippy the Pinhead cartoon (probably > 40 years ago) - when he 'won' the election for President of the US he > invited people to create their own cabinet positions. One of them was the > "Secretary of the Department of the Ulterior". I wonder what the > qualifications for such a position would be and how you could ever answer > "what do you do?". > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:13 AM Vijay Anand via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I was wondering of my aversion to that question as of late and now i know >> when it comes from. We might have spoken about this briefly during early >> TGP days and i agree. >> >> Most folks do define themselves by what they do between the 9 and 5. If >> you ask my mother she would say she regrets not being able to tell folks >> what is it that i do. So there might be some side effects to it. 😅 >> >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 1:43 PM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This, the most banal of all conversational opening lines, is something I >>> discourage at the meetups I organise. So it was interesting to see >>> silklister CY Gopinath's take. >>> >>> >>> https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/and-you-do-exactly-what-sir-23407241 >>> >>> Udhay >>> -- >>> Silklist mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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