The annoyance of job titles
1 June 2007As you may know, I have worked for the same company for eight years now and during that time i’ve moved office 3 times, lost all my original work colleages and made few friends because i’m in a small office off the beaten path. But then 5 years ago I was offered the chance to work on an online project because it had been known that i was a web designer. So fast forward 5 years and what have I achieved? Well I still havent managed to educate the people I work with about timescales and managing online projects, I’ve been part of a team that has won 2 major national online learning awards, and still not got any formal recognition from the management.
OK, so I work in the public sector, so there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that I am going to be able to get a payrise out of all the work and recognition. But a new job title would have been nice. It starts to get embarrassing when you go to a web conference and have to say that you are a ‘management analyst’ rather than anything to do with new media. So what do I do? Well the only thing I can - I lie. This makes me feel uneasy as I don’t think I should have to lie to my peers about what my company thinks of me.
All this thinking has come about after reading an article on Jeffery Zeldman’s blog about the unsung people of web development. Its an interesting and is written 10 times better than I could ever do, so please go and have a read.
