# Same name as job **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489 "2022-03-05T00:45:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/101 "2025-04-30T14:02:27Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Currently in the Army there is a Lieutenant General Admiral. He’s the III Corps commander at Fort Cavazos. In the Navy, there’s a Commander Steamboat Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/102 "2025-04-30T14:05:31Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#): > > What was Job’s job, anyway? I think it was categorized as, “Full Time Suffering”. God used him as a demo to show what He would do if you pissed him off. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/103 "2025-04-30T14:19:39Z")
I kind of hope this one is the opposite: > **[Crumbleholme Builders LLP](https://www.crumbleholme.co.uk/)** > > Welcome to our website, we hope that you will find it a helpful way of seeing the scope and types of the works that we undertake and also their finished quality. > > \< Please use the menu & sub menus on left hand side - you may have to click on... (pronounced crumble-home) ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/104 "2025-04-30T17:17:15Z")
Back in the 70s there was a gym teacher at our local YMCA named Skip Stress. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/105 "2025-04-30T21:50:01Z")
Marina Stepanova held the World Record for the 400m hurdles in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/106 "2025-04-30T22:33:17Z")
Władysław Szpilman, the focus of the movie “The Pianist.” Szpilman means _player_ or _musician_. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/107 "2025-05-01T19:40:03Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > > [@Roger\_That](#): > > > > What was Job’s job, anyway? Does the Bible say? Being righteous can’t be full-time work, can it? > > He was a farmer, and a very wealthy one. (Although in modern times, we would probably call him a rancher.) If you can’t add new information, add a quote. Job 1:3-5 King James Version (KJV) His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/108 "2025-05-01T20:24:32Z")
I now work on robot arms. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/109 "2025-05-01T20:38:27Z")
I’d suggest that’s maybe cheating, but I’m afraid I might get whacked by a robot arm. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/110 "2025-05-01T23:00:18Z")
Not exactly the same name as his job, but our local newspaper once had a photographer named Bob Lens. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/111 "2025-05-02T21:49:01Z")
I just started this job in January. The nickname goes back decades. It is, in fact, based on my real name, so in a tangential way my name did become my profession. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/112 "2025-05-03T00:07:09Z")
There was an ornithologist at McGill named David Bird. For a while he had a weekly bird-watching column in one of the local papers. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/113 "2025-05-04T02:04:34Z")
space X’s general manager (a woman, whose name escapes me now) - falls into that category as well ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/114 "2025-05-04T03:25:40Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > There was an ornithologist at McGill named David Bird. Yes, [so you said.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/63) (And so did the author of post #34.) Still, it’s an excellent example and bears repeating! I don’t think the NYC law firm of Lawless & Lynch is around any more, but they are at least adjacent to the thread theme. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/115 "2025-05-04T03:27:24Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > space X’s general manager (a woman, whose name escapes me now) - falls into that category as well [Kathy Lueders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Lueders)? I’m not seeing the connection… ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/116 "2025-05-04T11:39:11Z")
> **[Gwynne Shotwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell)** > > Gwynne Shotwell (née Rowley, previously Gurevich; born November 23, 1963) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth. > As of 2023\[update\], Shotwell is listed as the 28th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was ranked 54th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. In 2020, Time magazine named her as one of... (She is president, not GM… I got that wrong ) ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/117 "2025-05-04T12:14:26Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > I think it was categorized as, “Full Time Suffering”. God used him as a demo to show what He would do if you pissed him off. It’s even more bizarre than that. It was a bet between God and Satan to see if a really righteous person would curse God if made to suffer. ---
**Author:** ![Plutonium\_Chef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/plutonium_chef/32/11211_2.png) [@Plutonium\_Chef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plutonium_Chef)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/118 "2025-05-05T00:56:12Z")
This is OP-adjacent. In 1986 I visited a bank. The teller who helped me was Yvonne Thrifty. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/119 "2025-05-05T17:25:16Z")
Ďr David Bird is a well-known ornithologist (recently retired) in Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489/120 "2025-05-05T17:39:02Z")
Now he’s been mentioned 6 times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-name-as-job/960489.md?page=7)