# Make Up Pretentious Job Titles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 2, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596 "2007-02-02T19:49:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596/61 "2007-02-06T17:17:41Z")

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I could say I was a Clinical Re-animation Specialist. (I brought people back from the brink of death.)

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596/62 "2007-02-06T19:34:23Z")

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[QUOTE=groman]  
I’ll start calling myself Application Technician and you design me something that gets me to Tokyo from San Francisco and back in under two hours (alive, happy and intact).  
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Sorry, we refer international route designs to our Grand Poobah of Awesome. I only deal with domestic routes. 🙂

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596/63 "2007-02-06T19:38:57Z")

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[QUOTE=catsix]  
I was with you until you said ‘computer’ as if computer engineers are not real engineers…  
Computer engineers are real engineers…  
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Yes, I know, it is just such a delightful button to push. In fact, there is an old pit thread on this topic that I was gleefully involved in that all of you Logic Interface Data Redistribution Architects got all riled up in.

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**Author:** ![Buckwheat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Buckwheat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckwheat)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596/64 "2007-02-06T20:28:35Z")

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Assistant to the Vice President in charge of things that begin with the letter “Q”.

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**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-pretentious-job-titles/390596/65 "2007-02-06T20:56:55Z")

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I work in Information Distribution and Retention Analysis. I specialize in Rubric Design.

[QUOTE=Indygrrl]  
I’m an Erotic Engineer. 😃  
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Although I have never met you, (IIRC from your previous posts and, dear OG, I apologize if I’m wrong…) I would bet that you specialize in personal-sized wood and canvas tent engineering.

😃

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