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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From what I have seen its when
programmers decide to become politicans in their own realm and promote or market
themselves.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>You can be any of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Programmer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Programmer/Analyst</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Busines software
solutions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>System programmer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Senior programmer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Senior Developer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Senior Systems Developer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Systems Architect</FONT></DIV><FONT
color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Software Architect</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Senior Software Architect</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>....and the list goes on.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I worked in an office a few years ago where all the programmers had given
themselves titles like the last few.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am personally unsure of the merit of self appointed titles - it does
however raise the programmers dilemma:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Is it better to rate oneself or be rated by management people above who
have usually only a vague and inaccurate idea of how good someone really
is?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Both have to be risky ventures with unpredictable accuracy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Personally I have always been happy to called myself a (lowly)
Programmer/Support person because a good half of the best ideas I have had for
software have come when I actually do face to face support for real users,
watching them break or stress or show the bottlenecks in the stuff I have
written.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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