Ever since I left the world of learning and started to look for work I’ve noticed a fascination with over hyping ones job role / title. I remember working for a large insurance company and one day everyone within the company department by department were given a new job title. Note this wasn’t a change in job or the tasks we were to carry out but rather new snazzy names. To provide an example the cleaner suddenly became a hygiene operative. I didn’t quite understand the reasons behind this must have been to make the staff feel better about their job I guess.

Whenever we would see an old college buddy we would ask ‘hey what are you up to now?’ and every old buddy you meet without question always claims to have a better job. Even if it’s not better the job title would definitely sound very exclusive. One person told me they were an IT consultant, which sounds brilliant. So I quizzed further “What type of things do you get up to then?”
“Ah well, lots of different things. I have to admit its not that exciting. I was in one firm and I was installing virus checks on all of there machines.” He said.
I couldn’t think of anything more boring so I asked do they not they have an IT department. He replied well yes they do but the IT department didn’t want to make a decision on which one to use so I was hired to work on a ‘security initiative’ with them.

The point I’m trying to make is no matter how snazzy our job role title is we’re all just hygiene operatives at the end of the day.