• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Not a programmer. I’m a net admin.

    Actually my title is “Senior Network Architect”. I hate it. I feel like it detracts from real architects, who have licensure and actual training from an actual school.

    I hate it as an architect, and I hated it as an “engineer”, for the same reason.

    Yes, there’s a lot of complexity and planning, especially at larger scales. But it’s mostly self-taught, some webinars, and a lot of on-the-job (read: trial-by-fire) training.

    When it comes to telling computers what to do, I have no idea what to call it. I write Python scripts and Ansible modules, I guess. That doesn’t make me any of those titles though. Some times I poor-mans deamonize my scripts (while true loop) and pack them in a container.

    Using some of the same tools doesn’t make me any more of the same title.