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Nice article here on victorian job descriptions:
Digital frustra-scriptor – what's your Victorian job title?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2018/feb/12/digital-frustra-scriptor-whats-your-victorian-job-title
My name is Bob, I am a ....... ???
regards,
Bob
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I like that ;D
Carol
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Now that I am no longer in the job market, I can spend m,ore time on my unnamed hobby, collecting obscure job titles. I always think a big title is a poor alternative to a pay rise. Here are the fruits of my labours from recent years, all quite genuine.
Customer Success Specialist
Talented creatives
Data carving specialist (I think I actually was one of those!)
Instant Return Representative
Individual Giving Manager
Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic Manager
Long Term Teachers (Is that the one from Summer until Xmas?)
Web Crawling Business Analyst
Finally, for 8 months a couple of years ago I worked professionally as a metagrobologist.
Martin
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One of my husband's ancestors was a scavenger on the 1851 census. I originally took the description as literal, only later discovering this was an official term for a street cleaner. Not Victorian, but on a family tree, my cousin's husband was described as a transport manager, he was actually a coach driver :)
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In today's IT world, I love the job name " white hat hacker"
This is a specialist in hacking who is employed legally by large companies. The white hat hacker uses their potentially illegal knowledge to discover ways that illegal hackers could infiltrate systems.
ie a legal, non criminal hacker
I assume that the term "white hat" derives from the time-honoured custom in films of the good cowboys wearing white hats and riding white horses. The baddies wear black.