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 <
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> 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 <
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>
>> 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 <
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>>
>>> 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
>>>
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