What's in a name?

When I was younger, I overheard a conversation my father had with someone in our church. The man said to my dad, "Keith, I appreciate your job, because your title tells me everything." My dad is an architect. We all know the first and foremost small talk question is "What do you do?" And in this day and age, does the job title tell us anything? There are so many crazy job tittles out there that I can understand what a relief it is when you ask someone this and they tell you something like "a teacher" "a plumber" or "an architect". These days it seems that a plumber would no longer be called a plumber - maybe an intake and outtake fluid specialist. Sound better to me too.

So with the hubby's new job, came a new title. Frankly I am not sure what his last one was, it was something like Data Warehouse Architect - uh huh I have no idea either, and when he got promotions, they would add extra words on like manager or director, which some off you might now that he only managed himself, unless you count those people in India. I usually ended up telling people that my husband worked with computers, programming and what not. Well now he is not even programming so I think I have to stop saying that, especially since he is not in the IT department anymore. So enough stalling, what is his title? Junior BioInformatist! I am probably not even spelling it right - oh well. I told him this is what I am going to tell people right of the bat, because really how would you respond to this? "What does your husband do?" "Oh my husband? he is just a junior bioinformatists but we are crossing our fingers he becomes a senior!" Really so confusing these days. And no I do not really know what it means, but you can buy the BioInformatist for Dummies book.

Let see what Wikipedia has to say - "Bioinformatics is the application of statistics and computer science to the field of molecular biology." hmm sounds impressive though doesn't it? I think I need to start wearing fancy dresses to the grocery store, hosting Tupperware parties and drinking long island ice teas, or maybe that is the 50's housewife stereotype (don't know why I went there).

Sigh - My title you might ask (ok I know you didn't) - Senior Event Captain - So do I trump his Junior since I am a Senior?