Friday, September 04, 2009

Title

So I was thinking about what it means to have 'title'. And for all of the cyperoids out there like me who hear that term and automatically think about the 'title' of a blog post, that's not at all what I'm talking about.
What brought it to my mind was the fact that I've started a new job but they've sort of created a possition for me, that meaning that no one really knows what I'm in charge of. This isn't such a big deal really, I've been doing a lot of much needed data imput and fileing but I feel sort of like they are giving me random jobs. My boss is out today and left a ton of sorting and filing on my desk to be done. But she did leave a note thanking me for everything that I've been doing and she's going to work on an official job 'title' and description. More than likely I'll be doing a lot of the same stuff, but it will make me feel better and over all more important once I have a title. It's sort of silly but I was wondering if anyone else feels like this? And it does apply to many areas of life, this is just one area where it matters to me for no good reason.

Examples of title and what it says about you:
Sir (you're a Knight, the english version of bad-ass)
Assistant Manager (you're no longer on the bottom rung)
Mrs. (you're someones wife)
Admin Assistant (you're someone's bitch)
Jr. (you're parents were unoriginal)
Ph.D. (you paid a lot of money to read a lot of books)
XI or more (wow that's a big number, you must have some crazy old name and you probably go by something that has nothing to do with you're legal name)
Judge (you're important and intimidating)
Coffee Expert (Starbucks highest honor/the person I want making my coffee)
Coach (soccer, football, gym, birthing, etc/someone I don't want to be)
Master Mariner (Lord of the seas! Well of your little government licensed vesel at least :-/)
Notary (no one knows why but you are the one important person at a seemingly unimportant job, perhaps you got certified to add meaning to your life... who knows? But one thing I know for sure is that front teeth are certainly not required for this title, long story.)

ok that's enough for now. Feel free to comment with anything you think i've left out :-)

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