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What do you call yourself

October 06, 2007 2:45am

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  • #16 / Oct 15, 2007 6:55pm

    Pandabeer

    4 posts

    Here’s my favorite list:

    - Web Magician
    - Keyboard Athlete
    - Cyberhacker
    - Technical Consultant for Web Development
    - Web Application Programmer
    - IT Expert on Internet Related Issues
    - Webscripter
    - Web Systems Developer
    - Web Consultant
    - Web Architect

    But I think where I live (The Netherlands) you can call yourself Junior/Senior Web Developer. If you get a degree you can call yourself on the European standard. I believe I’m a BICT, which stands for Bachelor of ICT. But I don’t really like that title, so I don’t use it 😛.

  • #17 / Oct 15, 2007 10:37pm

    kucerar

    42 posts

    He’s in Brazil, where logic rules and the RIAA have no power.

    Take me to Aruanda… 😊

  • #18 / Oct 15, 2007 10:40pm

    kucerar

    42 posts

    ok, if you don’t like, i removed the word free + download 😊

    it’s for your own safety…I only listen to legal siouxsie/creatures bootlegs now from untiedundone…

  • #19 / Oct 16, 2007 9:51am

    ELRafael

    274 posts

    we have a music here that tells this history (is only for your safety - military period, the darkest period in our history!!)

    hey, try finetune.com! is a radio online, with as3, web 2.0 concept! is a cool one…

    aruanda? oh man!!! :sick:


    We’re all living in Amerika,
    Amerika ist wunderbar.
    We’re all living in Amerika,
    Coca-Cola, sometimes WAR! (Coca-cola = coke)

  • #20 / Oct 17, 2007 1:27am

    schnoodles

    67 posts

    I was hired as a Web Developer specialising in PHP with HTML/CSS/JS on the sides, and my boss let me chose what to put on my card aswell.

    I ended up going with Software Developer seeing that is what i am creating.

  • #21 / Oct 17, 2007 9:50am

    kucerar

    42 posts

    ...we will call you CYGNUS the god of BALANCE you shall BE….

  • #22 / Oct 18, 2007 2:50pm

    ricklee

    29 posts

    I am more curious to know what others call themselves… I run a small Web Development Firm (4 employees)


    -Lee

    How about Principal? You can put “web development” by the firm name. Principal makes it clear that you have decision-making authority within your organization, which is important to the people you deal with.  It also connotes more expertise than if you said anything more specific. If you’re principal, they give you credit for knowing the whole process. If you use a title that sounds technical, they’ll assume you don’t have any design sense. If you use a title that’s design-related, they’ll assume you’re technically incompetent.

  • #23 / Oct 29, 2007 6:22pm

    Chris J Smith

    15 posts

    I’m a “Principal Developer” in the finance sector.  The title is wired to the salary rather than the responsibility and any savvy business/sales person will realise that.

    When I was freelancing, my card just had “Freelance Web Consultant” on it with a few selected styled keywords.  Worked wonders.  Then the tax man got me!

  • #24 / Nov 01, 2007 4:04pm

    llbbl

    324 posts

    Sr. PHP Developer

  • #25 / Nov 04, 2007 1:43pm

    Phil Sturgeon

    2889 posts

    I would avoid putting a specific technology in your title like llbbl here.

    PHP Developer = You only know one technology, useless.
    Web Developer = Only know how to make websites.
    Software Developer = Sounds like a script kiddy, probably dabbled in VB.net for 20 mins.
    Software Engineer = Sounds sciency, this guy can make anything.

    I just like being able to say at parties that im a self employed engineer. Don’t say WHAT I engineer as you either get the whole “ooooo get you!” or “ha, nerd, fuck off”.

  • #26 / Nov 04, 2007 3:05pm

    Kemik

    162 posts

    Ok, ok, get a second pair of pants ready for this one…

    What do you call yourself?

    Sean, how about you?

    Oh how funny I am! 😛

  • #27 / Nov 04, 2007 8:01pm

    llbbl

    324 posts

    Software engineers don’t actually do the work, they just think about the best way to make software.

  • #28 / Nov 04, 2007 8:42pm

    CI Lee

    343 posts

    Well in the end I went with

    lee
    email
    phone

    url

    and it seems to work well!

    -Lee

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