In the old days, I was called a programmer - then a programmer / analyst - then programmer / systems analyst. Now, programmers are "engineers."
So now I'm a "Senior Software Engineer": development team lead and manager for the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) portion of Sun Microsystem's Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Got that?
Here's the kind of stuff I look at while at work...
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Ha! I look at "HTTP Status 500" too... I bet we could just replace job descriptions with error codes and get a pretty accurate understanding of what people do.
If you spend your days looking at that, just like me looking at numbers, no wonder we are going blind.
Okay, I get all that. But what is it, exactly, that you do? Some kidding aside, I suffer the same fate. When people ask me what I do, I carefully explain it to them, all the while watching their expressions glaze over like a Christmas ham. It occurs to me that what each of us does is best recounted in Chinese.
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