Job Titles and Descriptions
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pegkerrYou are all so kind to have offered Fiona glimpses into your work lives. This project, once again, has been a fabulous success. (Once again, here are last year's entries and this year's entries).
I have compiled and printed out your answers for Fiona to read. I also created an index of the job titles and descriptions, in case you'd like to see a quick summary of how fascinating you all are. These are in no particularly order, just in the order they came in.
Alas, when my hard disk crashed, I lost the electronic version of the answers of those who last year sent me their job descriptions by e-mail, but I think I printed them out. I'll look around my office. If I find them, I'll update the book and the index.
1. Financial Administrator of the Journals Division of the University of Chicago
I look after the money for part of the press attached to a University
2. High School Student
I am in my 12th year of school counting Kindergarten, and my third year of high school
3. Speech-Language Pathologist
I help people who have trouble communicating, through illness or injury or other problems
4. Project Manager for Consulting Firm
My company provides people with skills (technology, business process/how to do things faster, easier, cheaper, strategy) to other (health care, financial services) companies (clients) who need help.
5. Senior Technical Recruiter
I find the right people for open jobs in our company
6. Library Page
I’m responsible for putting all the books that people return to the library back on the shelves.
7. Technical Editor
I help people like chemists, geologists and environmental scientists to say things clearly and correctly and get their point across.
8. Fourth Grade Teacher
9. Proposal Editor and Writer for an information technology consulting company
"Information Technology" is big computer systems that keep businesses and stores running. "Consulting" is providing assistance to those businesses and stores by reviewing their systems and giving them advice and help to improve the systems. To sell this assistance to businesses, my company will send the business a "Proposal" -- a document that tells the business what my company can do and how much it will cost them.
10. Library Aide II
This means I can do more skilled clerical work than a Library Aide I, but I don’t have to supervise people, which is what an Aide III does.
11. Project Hydrogeologist for a civil engineering and environmental consulting company
I do soil and ground water evaluations for commercial companies that come to our companies for advice.
12. Gymnastics teacher
I teach beginning gymnastics at the YMCA
13. Instructor
I’m non-tenure track faculty at a university (also known as adjunct faculty).
14. Police Dispatcher
I tell police officers where to go, I keep track of what they are doing, and some nights I take 911 calls or take police reports.
15. Department Manager
Manager of a bookstore
16. Canine Search Specialist
I handle a disaster search dog with the local FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency
17. Homemaker/Volunteer
I don’t go to a job every day. I don’t have a boss, and I don’t have a paycheck. I stay home, but I still have many things to do every day.
18. Typesetter
I use a computer to prepare text and other things to be printed
19. Supermarket Checker
20. Environmental Protection Specialist for an environmental agency
I work in the recycling and planning program, review grants and requests for money, and I also inspect composting sites.
21. Associate Attorney
I am a Corporate Finance and Transactions lawyer at a big law firm. "Associate" refers to the fact that I am not a "partner"—or a part owner of the business.
22. Peer advisor at a community college
I get to help students decide what classes they should take in order to finish their Associate’s degrees.
23. Reference and Teen Services Librarian
I am responsible for all teen collection development and programming, coordinating volunteers, ordering books, computer maintenance, answering reference questions, cataloguing, working with periodicals and databases, reading professional journals such as Publisher’s Weekly, and generally making sure the library doesn’t collapse.
24. Agriculture student
I study all sorts of things about farming and how to take care of plants and animals appropriately.
25. Airport Supervising Officer and Crew Handling
Ground staffer at airport
I'm concerned with taking care of plane crew and putting them in hotels, take care of passengers if there is a delay, unaccompanied minors, disabled passengers, passport problems, etc.
26. Senior Technologist for an independent software vendor (ISV) (Freelance Writer)
I’m supposed to know stuff not only about my ISV’s technology, but also other technology that complements it or competes with it. I write and give presentations. I also work with other senior developers to design software.
27. Administrative Assistant to Resident Director of a university fruit station
That means I’m a secretary for fruit substation, which is a research facility.
28. Sales Associate at convenience store/gas station
29. Online Editor for small contract publishing company
We publish magazines and electronic newsletters for three industry associations.
30. IT Help Desk consultant
People call me when they have questions about their computers
31. Astronomer
I work at the Chandra Xray Center. Chandra is an Xray telescope in orbit around the earth, that observes astronomical objects in xrays instead of visible light.
32. Showhome Hostess
In new subdivisions, where they’re just starting to build new houses, the house building companies will build a "showhome," which is just a home that is sort of an example of the houses they build, with furnishings and decorations. A showhome hostess sits in the home and answers questions and tries to sell people houses.
33. Joint Venture analyst for an oil and gas company
I look after joint venture billings for my company. What’s a joint venture billing? When an oil company drills an oil well, it can be pretty expensive. Sometimes what they’ll do is split up the cost of drilling and running it with a bunch of different companies so they don’t have to pay for the whole thing themselves. So my company has part ownership (called a percentage) in hundreds of different wells that are run by different companies. We share the expenses and we share the money that comes in when we sell the oil that they drill. Each month each of the companies we share well ownership with will send us invoices with a list of wells, tell us what percentage they’re charging us and how much money we owe them (or how much they owe us from selling the oil). My job is to make sure those bills are correct and that they get paid.
34. Technical Assistant, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
I am a UNIX specialist to support two scientists who are also Harvard Professors teaching astronomy.
35. Financial Analyst
I put together financial data from different divisions/departments and look at it to see if it makes sense, where money is being spent, and if there are problems.
36. Grants Manager
When research scientists get money from the government or from the American Cancer Society or whomever, I make sure the scientist follows all the rules associated with that money.
37. Movie Theater Box Office and Guest Services
38. Marketing copywriter/media buyer for an advertising department of a large corporation.
I write radio commercials and newspaper ads. I also buy "air" time on radio and negotiate costs and placement commercials on local radio stations and sometimes in newspapers.
39. Artist/Stay at home mom
40. Subject Librarian and Library Web Development Officer
Professional librarian at a university with responsibility for the library needs for members of certain academic departments.
41. Senior Resident Tutor
In the UK Universities do not have fraternities or sororities. We either have collegiate universities (such as Cambridge) where every academic and student will belong to a given college for their time at the university, or non-collegiate universities (the vast majority) where students will live in halls of residence. Halls can be catered or self-catered. All the halls at the University of Bath are self-catering. For about every 100 students living in halls on campus there is 1 resident tutor who will live in halls with the students and is responsible for discipline, welfare and social activities within halls. Resident tutors are members of university staff or postgraduate students. There are 8 resident tutors on campus at present. I am the Senior resident Tutor which means I manage the resident tutors and am also where the buck stops.
42. Project Manager
43. Civil Trial Lawyer
I represent businesses which become involved in lawsuits after they have been unable to resolve their problems between themselves.
44. Youth Prevention Specialist
I do HIV/STD (sexually transmitted disease) and Substance Abuse education with teenagers and young adults
45. Library Circulation Assistant for Touro Law School
46. Intermediate Expert at Computer Information Services
I work with staff and other students at my college to make sure the public computers and the network are all running smoothly.
47. Temporary Secretary
Instead of having a full-time job as a secretary at one business, I fill in for other secretaries at lots of businesses, if they’re sick if they want some time off, if they’ve quit and the company hasn’t hired someone new yet, etc.
48. Library Paraprofessional at a private high school
49. Family Therapist at Day Treatment program at Denver Children’s Home
I work with families of kids who have had problems at school, at home, or in the community (like breaking the law, for example).
50. Legal Secretary
Secretary to an attorney.
51. Human Resources Manager for Social Welfare Department
The old name was "personnel manager." We make sure people get paid on time, talk to staff who have problems and try to resolve them, and interview people when we have vacant positions.
52. Non-teaching faculty: Communications Specialist – Digital media
I make Web Sites for the Sea Grant program at Oregon State University.
53. Bohemian Free Spirit/Writer
I chiefly consider myself to be a writer, and all my other jobs are done to support that.
54. Astronomical Satellite Mission Planner/Analyst
I’m one of two astronomers on the Flight Operations team for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission.
55. Graphic Designer/Hot glass artist/Waitress/Mom
Graphic designers create things like posters, brochures, business cards, magazine ads, websites and billboards. Hot glass artists make cool things out of glass. Waitress brings you your food in restaurants.
56. High School Student
57. Graduate Student
I’m a student in the Mechanical Engineering department, working toward a doctorate (Ph.D.) degree
58. Translater/editor/conference minutes taker
59. Nurse
60. Undergraduate Research Fellow
I’m an undergraduate assistant in an academic molecular biology lab (I do DNA stuff)
61. MAC Specialist with Apple Computer
I’m specially trained to help customers select the right Macintosh computer for their needs. I am also trained in some technical and hardware support.
62. Electrician
Responsible for installation, repair and maintenance of electrical systems.
63. Music Teacher in an elementary school
64. Technology coordinator for Writing Lab and Professional Writing Program at a large university
I am responsible for choosing and taking care of computers, software ,websites and other applications that people in my department use to teach and learn writing and to help people learn to write better.
65. Assistant Professor of English
I teach English at a college or university.
66. Electronic Imaging Technician
I scan journal articles and book chapters into digital format.
67. Mechanical Engineer
I design the guts of buildings – the stuff that makes them go but no one wants to think about – like the plumbing, and the ventilation and stuff like that.
68. Literary Agent representing children’s books
I get to share the trials and tribulations of a lot of talented writers as we together try to find a publisher to bring their work to the world.
69. Graduate Student Instructor
I teach college students as a temporary employee appointed on a term-by-term basis.
70. Management Consultant
I work on the front lines exploring what is next in the world of business.
71. Pediatric Resident
I am a doctor who takes care of children
72. Clerk for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Devision
We’re a state agency that keeps an eye on people who have been released from prison and are serving a portion of their sentences among the community.
73. User Interface Designer (or) Usability Engineer
I make software or websites “useable” for normal people via various methods. It’s a specialty of the computer/software industry.
74. Medical Transcriptionist
I listen to doctors dictating their notes for people’s medical records and type that.
75. Director of a small public library
It’s my job to see that everything about the library runs smoothly, from keeping up the collection of books, movies, magazines, audio books, and other media to coming up with ideas for library programming (like Summer Reading) to telling about the library in our community.
76. Office Manager for a plumbing company
I’m responsible for everything from making sure the paychecks are written to making sure we have staples and paper in the office.
77. Assistant Stage Manager for a theater company
I’m in charge of coordinating designers, directors and actors, running rehearsals, producing rehearsal reports, maintaining the production book, and calling all the cues during the show.
78. Substitute Teacher/Independent Contractor for a library
I create and run age-appropriate literacy-based programs for kids aged four to eighteen.
79. Accounts Manager
I make sure people pay use money that they owe us and that bills are being sent out on time.
80. Producer/Programmer at a radio station
I push all the buttons and levers to make sure the show going out sounds good. I select the music I’m going to play on my show and what order the songs will go it. I have to make sure there are no FCC violations (songs that are dirty or offensive).
81. Restaurant Hostess
When you go to a restaurant, I’m the person who greets you at the door and takes you to your table, and gives you your menu, just like if you were hosting a party at your house.
82. Private Piano instructor
I teach kids how to play the piano in a one-on-one setting, not a classroom.
83. Travel Agent
I am licensed to take resort reservations, and make packages including airfare, resort accommodations, tickets, and entire vacation getaways.
84. Marketing Communications Coordinator
I am the person who actually brings to life the ideas and strategies and plans that our Marketing Department thinks up.
85. English Teacher
86. Airbrush Artist/Shop Owner
I am the one who does both the actual airbrush work and the ordering of stock, selling to customers, and arranging for advertising.
87. Water Systems Chemist with the City of Detroit
I do the analysis necessary to keep the wastewater treatment plant (the biggest one in the world right now) running on a day-to-day basis.
88. Assistant Professor of Physics
I teach at a small liberal arts college and try to do original research at the same time.
89. Design Engineer
I’m an electrical engineer, who can be involved in software development, testing, system modeling, script (short program) maintenance, hardware design, testing, etc.
90. Computer Support Analyst for a major public university
I’m in charge of automating office systems for the part of the university that handles thesis and dissertation editing. I also do a lot of website work.
91. Minister
92. Recreation Therapist
That means that I help people through the benefits of recreational activities. This involves developing skills through recreational activities, so I would choose an activity that would work on whatever the person's limitation is. I also teach people how to independently participate in leisure activities. A lot of people, after they have an accident or stroke or something where they might lose some functioning and also those with pre-existing disabilities, don't know how to get involved. We teach our clients the skills they need, identify resources (either adapted equipment or places they can go to, people they can talk to, whatever), and help give them the tools to be able to be able to do anything they want to do for fun.
93. Board Operator at a radio station
Basically I’m a DJ but I don’t get to talk on the air.
94. Business Analyst for a computer software company
I am responsible for looking at the programs we create coming up with new ideas that our customers will want.
95. Assistant Attorney General
I work for the State of New York. The Attorney General’s office is basically a law firm for the State, and I’m one of its lawyers.
96. Third Mate, M/V GLOMAR EXPLORER (a drillship)/also Ensign, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
97. Equipment Development Engineer
Our group acts as the liason between our R&D, manufacturing operations and suppliers of semiconductor processing captial equipment to help develop wafer-processing equipment that meets the needs of emerging, cutting edge technology. Um... that is we help select and make work the equipment that goes in our fabs (factories that make computer chips), so that it does what we need it too and costs as little as possible.
98. Teacher of English conversation
I work at NOVA, Japan’s most popular McEnglish school.
99. Senior Copywriter/Associate Creative Director
I write 'copy' (all the words you seen in advertisements) and come up with the 'concepts' for the ads at a very big advertising agency. The associate creative director part means that I also manage other writers, designers, and creative types and meet with clients.
100. Certified Interior Designer(CID), and a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer(CMKBD)
I specialize in designing and remodeling homes. I'm not a designer who chooses couches or pillows or lamps; that's an interior decorator. I designs the space of the room, and make changes to the walls and ceilings, cabinetry, doors and windows, and lighting.
101. Unemployed job seeker
I used to work for the public library, but our budget was cut.
102. Database Group Leader in a biochemistry department
I manage two web databases for biologists. There are a lot of biologists in the world finding out all sorts of things about different living organisms, and reading the DNA sequence information which tells the organisms how to get by, day to day, how to grow and how to digest food and things like that. What my team does is take some of that information and organise it and search through it, find patterns and interesting things and identify bits of sequence where we can recognise what they do because they are similar to other ones we already have, and then show all this to people who are working with it in ways which will be useful to them.
103. Senior Technical Writer
The tech writer part means I write, edit, and publish software manuals. The senior part means that in theory I'm experienced enough to lead/coordinate other writers on a large project, write/maintain procedures, and edit more.
104. Social Services Examiner (sometimes called Social Welfare Examiner)
I'm one of the people who work in the welfare office, interviewing people to see if they might be eligible for Temporary Assistance (traditional welfare), Food Stamps, Medicaid or HEAP. If they are eligible, then we open a new case for them and administer it, making sure they get their benefits when they should and that if there are any changes to their circumstances, we adjust their case accordingly.
105. Lab Technician-Chemist for a sewerage district.
I work in a laboratory testing sewerage before and after it's treated and testing lakes and rivers to make sure their quality is constant.
106. "Six Sigma Plus Organization Engineering Black Belt"
I think that may be the goofiest title anyone has given you so far. A Six Sigma Black Belt is trained to help other people in an engineering company look at what they do and figure out how to do it more efficiently and with fewer mistakes. Because I'm in my company's Six Sigma Department, I do this full time; there are also people trained as Black Belt's who work those skills in as part of their regular jobs. Six Sigma started mostly with making manufacturing more efficient, but it's branched out not to all parts of our business. I work with Engineering departments who design airplane parts; those are becoming more and more computerized and my specialty is working with the software people who design and create those programs.
107. Writing Tutor
I discuss writing concepts with students and Stony Brook University.
108. ICP Analyst
ICP is short for Inductively Coupled Plasma, which is an analytical instrument. What it comes down to is I'm a chemist that works with analytical instrumentation, and I work for a geoscientific laboratory. In essence, I "cook rocks" and tell you what's in them.
109. Librarian/ Marriage and Family Counselor
After getting my master's degree in library science, I worked as a librarian at a small liberal arts 4 year college.
After getting my master's degree in counseling psychology, I had to pass a test to become a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor. Although I could have worked in many areas, I chose to help clients who were going through a challenging time in their lives.
110. Assistant Life Sciences Librarian
Assistant Proffesor of Library Science
I help run the Life Sciences Library (Agriculture, Biology and related subjects) but am not in charge of it. It means I'm a faculty member here. That means I have to publish and am eligible for tenure and promotion.
111. Commis (or Prep) Chef
I worked in the kitchen of a small pub. Basically my job was to cook all the starters, make the salads, the side dishes and the puddings that people ordered. I also had to do a lot of prep work so we'd have enough vegetables and things each day.
112. Creative Director/Consultant for a marketing company
As a Creative Director, I work with clients to help them create communications that support their brand & strategy requirements. As a Consultant, I work with clients to help them create the actual brand & strategy.
113. Freelance data entry and analysis for oil companies
Basically, every few weeks, I get handed a stack of paper with reports from oil wells and have to sift through the information for the relevant data and enter it into spreadsheets.
114. Director of Finance
I manage a group of people who create the budgets, update forecasts and answer questions about how the company is making and spending its money. We also manage the money by making sure only the people who are supposed to spend money do so and that the money we have in the bank is in the right place and is earning interest.
115. System Administrator
I work for Greenpeace International, and my job is to make sure that all internet services work and are secure for all of our offices around the world, travelling activists, and our three ships. I also help to make sure that all of the technical bits (getting video back to the office to be sent to newspapers and tv, making sure that e-mail is working, etc) work before, during and after actions.
116. Senior Scouting Coordinator for a small private firm that helps high school athletes find college scholarships
What this means is that I manage the assignments for our national scouting team - I tell them where to go when and give them the names of prospective clients to meet with, collate all data on our thousands of potential clients, and create the travelling schedule for the scouts and my bosses.
117. Student in upper sixth form at my local Upper School (England).
Basically that's a fancy way of saying I'm in my last year of school before university.
118. Project Manager
This means I make a lot of lists, taking input from different people. Once I have the list items, I make sure that someone is paying attention to them, whether it's working on a software fix, getting additional training or information, or that the items are being tested further.
119. Special Events Director, Relay For Life Specialist for the American Cancer Society
A Special Events Director is a person who designs and organizes all of the different small activities that happen at a big event -- think of a Field Day at school with all of the different games and contests and snacks and scoring and prizes. Because I'm a Relay For Life specialist, I'm in charge of half of the Relay events in my office (7) -- special all night walking parties for people with cancer and the people who raise money to find a cure for cancer.
120. Vet. Technician
In a vet practice, I do everything except prescribe medicine, diagnose and major surgery.
121. Assistant editor for a small publisher
It's somewhere between entry-level assistant to an editor and being an editor. That is, I'm an assistant to an editor of college textbooks, but I also have my own projects.
122. Telecommunicator III
It means that I have progressed to the third level by learning new functions. I started as a 9-1-1 call taker. I learned several radio functions and can now perform all law enforcement radio and telephone functions (I answer 9-1-1 calls and dispatch to officers as well as access NCIC.)
123. Educational Clinician
I’m still studying at university in Scotland right now, but I will be graduating in June. For the last two years, I’ve worked as a teacher, or "Educational Clinician." It’s a mouthful, but it helps to distinguish between people like me and regular school teachers, who have to have some kind of degree or certificate to teach. I was working in a Learning Center, not a school, you see – it was like a private school for people with learning disabilities.
124. Lecturer
I’m a Lecturer in English and Topical Discussion (like Current Affairs) in the Department of English and International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing
125. Computer Contractor
That means I work with computers short term, non-permanent positions (anywhere from 3 days to 3 months, with my average being about 1 ½ months.
126. Real Estate Assistant
That means I help out my employer, who is a Real Estate Agent
Thanks once again for the gift of your responses! You people rock.
I have compiled and printed out your answers for Fiona to read. I also created an index of the job titles and descriptions, in case you'd like to see a quick summary of how fascinating you all are. These are in no particularly order, just in the order they came in.
Alas, when my hard disk crashed, I lost the electronic version of the answers of those who last year sent me their job descriptions by e-mail, but I think I printed them out. I'll look around my office. If I find them, I'll update the book and the index.
1. Financial Administrator of the Journals Division of the University of Chicago
I look after the money for part of the press attached to a University
2. High School Student
I am in my 12th year of school counting Kindergarten, and my third year of high school
3. Speech-Language Pathologist
I help people who have trouble communicating, through illness or injury or other problems
4. Project Manager for Consulting Firm
My company provides people with skills (technology, business process/how to do things faster, easier, cheaper, strategy) to other (health care, financial services) companies (clients) who need help.
5. Senior Technical Recruiter
I find the right people for open jobs in our company
6. Library Page
I’m responsible for putting all the books that people return to the library back on the shelves.
7. Technical Editor
I help people like chemists, geologists and environmental scientists to say things clearly and correctly and get their point across.
8. Fourth Grade Teacher
9. Proposal Editor and Writer for an information technology consulting company
"Information Technology" is big computer systems that keep businesses and stores running. "Consulting" is providing assistance to those businesses and stores by reviewing their systems and giving them advice and help to improve the systems. To sell this assistance to businesses, my company will send the business a "Proposal" -- a document that tells the business what my company can do and how much it will cost them.
10. Library Aide II
This means I can do more skilled clerical work than a Library Aide I, but I don’t have to supervise people, which is what an Aide III does.
11. Project Hydrogeologist for a civil engineering and environmental consulting company
I do soil and ground water evaluations for commercial companies that come to our companies for advice.
12. Gymnastics teacher
I teach beginning gymnastics at the YMCA
13. Instructor
I’m non-tenure track faculty at a university (also known as adjunct faculty).
14. Police Dispatcher
I tell police officers where to go, I keep track of what they are doing, and some nights I take 911 calls or take police reports.
15. Department Manager
Manager of a bookstore
16. Canine Search Specialist
I handle a disaster search dog with the local FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency
17. Homemaker/Volunteer
I don’t go to a job every day. I don’t have a boss, and I don’t have a paycheck. I stay home, but I still have many things to do every day.
18. Typesetter
I use a computer to prepare text and other things to be printed
19. Supermarket Checker
20. Environmental Protection Specialist for an environmental agency
I work in the recycling and planning program, review grants and requests for money, and I also inspect composting sites.
21. Associate Attorney
I am a Corporate Finance and Transactions lawyer at a big law firm. "Associate" refers to the fact that I am not a "partner"—or a part owner of the business.
22. Peer advisor at a community college
I get to help students decide what classes they should take in order to finish their Associate’s degrees.
23. Reference and Teen Services Librarian
I am responsible for all teen collection development and programming, coordinating volunteers, ordering books, computer maintenance, answering reference questions, cataloguing, working with periodicals and databases, reading professional journals such as Publisher’s Weekly, and generally making sure the library doesn’t collapse.
24. Agriculture student
I study all sorts of things about farming and how to take care of plants and animals appropriately.
25. Airport Supervising Officer and Crew Handling
Ground staffer at airport
I'm concerned with taking care of plane crew and putting them in hotels, take care of passengers if there is a delay, unaccompanied minors, disabled passengers, passport problems, etc.
26. Senior Technologist for an independent software vendor (ISV) (Freelance Writer)
I’m supposed to know stuff not only about my ISV’s technology, but also other technology that complements it or competes with it. I write and give presentations. I also work with other senior developers to design software.
27. Administrative Assistant to Resident Director of a university fruit station
That means I’m a secretary for fruit substation, which is a research facility.
28. Sales Associate at convenience store/gas station
29. Online Editor for small contract publishing company
We publish magazines and electronic newsletters for three industry associations.
30. IT Help Desk consultant
People call me when they have questions about their computers
31. Astronomer
I work at the Chandra Xray Center. Chandra is an Xray telescope in orbit around the earth, that observes astronomical objects in xrays instead of visible light.
32. Showhome Hostess
In new subdivisions, where they’re just starting to build new houses, the house building companies will build a "showhome," which is just a home that is sort of an example of the houses they build, with furnishings and decorations. A showhome hostess sits in the home and answers questions and tries to sell people houses.
33. Joint Venture analyst for an oil and gas company
I look after joint venture billings for my company. What’s a joint venture billing? When an oil company drills an oil well, it can be pretty expensive. Sometimes what they’ll do is split up the cost of drilling and running it with a bunch of different companies so they don’t have to pay for the whole thing themselves. So my company has part ownership (called a percentage) in hundreds of different wells that are run by different companies. We share the expenses and we share the money that comes in when we sell the oil that they drill. Each month each of the companies we share well ownership with will send us invoices with a list of wells, tell us what percentage they’re charging us and how much money we owe them (or how much they owe us from selling the oil). My job is to make sure those bills are correct and that they get paid.
34. Technical Assistant, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
I am a UNIX specialist to support two scientists who are also Harvard Professors teaching astronomy.
35. Financial Analyst
I put together financial data from different divisions/departments and look at it to see if it makes sense, where money is being spent, and if there are problems.
36. Grants Manager
When research scientists get money from the government or from the American Cancer Society or whomever, I make sure the scientist follows all the rules associated with that money.
37. Movie Theater Box Office and Guest Services
38. Marketing copywriter/media buyer for an advertising department of a large corporation.
I write radio commercials and newspaper ads. I also buy "air" time on radio and negotiate costs and placement commercials on local radio stations and sometimes in newspapers.
39. Artist/Stay at home mom
40. Subject Librarian and Library Web Development Officer
Professional librarian at a university with responsibility for the library needs for members of certain academic departments.
41. Senior Resident Tutor
In the UK Universities do not have fraternities or sororities. We either have collegiate universities (such as Cambridge) where every academic and student will belong to a given college for their time at the university, or non-collegiate universities (the vast majority) where students will live in halls of residence. Halls can be catered or self-catered. All the halls at the University of Bath are self-catering. For about every 100 students living in halls on campus there is 1 resident tutor who will live in halls with the students and is responsible for discipline, welfare and social activities within halls. Resident tutors are members of university staff or postgraduate students. There are 8 resident tutors on campus at present. I am the Senior resident Tutor which means I manage the resident tutors and am also where the buck stops.
42. Project Manager
43. Civil Trial Lawyer
I represent businesses which become involved in lawsuits after they have been unable to resolve their problems between themselves.
44. Youth Prevention Specialist
I do HIV/STD (sexually transmitted disease) and Substance Abuse education with teenagers and young adults
45. Library Circulation Assistant for Touro Law School
46. Intermediate Expert at Computer Information Services
I work with staff and other students at my college to make sure the public computers and the network are all running smoothly.
47. Temporary Secretary
Instead of having a full-time job as a secretary at one business, I fill in for other secretaries at lots of businesses, if they’re sick if they want some time off, if they’ve quit and the company hasn’t hired someone new yet, etc.
48. Library Paraprofessional at a private high school
49. Family Therapist at Day Treatment program at Denver Children’s Home
I work with families of kids who have had problems at school, at home, or in the community (like breaking the law, for example).
50. Legal Secretary
Secretary to an attorney.
51. Human Resources Manager for Social Welfare Department
The old name was "personnel manager." We make sure people get paid on time, talk to staff who have problems and try to resolve them, and interview people when we have vacant positions.
52. Non-teaching faculty: Communications Specialist – Digital media
I make Web Sites for the Sea Grant program at Oregon State University.
53. Bohemian Free Spirit/Writer
I chiefly consider myself to be a writer, and all my other jobs are done to support that.
54. Astronomical Satellite Mission Planner/Analyst
I’m one of two astronomers on the Flight Operations team for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission.
55. Graphic Designer/Hot glass artist/Waitress/Mom
Graphic designers create things like posters, brochures, business cards, magazine ads, websites and billboards. Hot glass artists make cool things out of glass. Waitress brings you your food in restaurants.
56. High School Student
57. Graduate Student
I’m a student in the Mechanical Engineering department, working toward a doctorate (Ph.D.) degree
58. Translater/editor/conference minutes taker
59. Nurse
60. Undergraduate Research Fellow
I’m an undergraduate assistant in an academic molecular biology lab (I do DNA stuff)
61. MAC Specialist with Apple Computer
I’m specially trained to help customers select the right Macintosh computer for their needs. I am also trained in some technical and hardware support.
62. Electrician
Responsible for installation, repair and maintenance of electrical systems.
63. Music Teacher in an elementary school
64. Technology coordinator for Writing Lab and Professional Writing Program at a large university
I am responsible for choosing and taking care of computers, software ,websites and other applications that people in my department use to teach and learn writing and to help people learn to write better.
65. Assistant Professor of English
I teach English at a college or university.
66. Electronic Imaging Technician
I scan journal articles and book chapters into digital format.
67. Mechanical Engineer
I design the guts of buildings – the stuff that makes them go but no one wants to think about – like the plumbing, and the ventilation and stuff like that.
68. Literary Agent representing children’s books
I get to share the trials and tribulations of a lot of talented writers as we together try to find a publisher to bring their work to the world.
69. Graduate Student Instructor
I teach college students as a temporary employee appointed on a term-by-term basis.
70. Management Consultant
I work on the front lines exploring what is next in the world of business.
71. Pediatric Resident
I am a doctor who takes care of children
72. Clerk for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Devision
We’re a state agency that keeps an eye on people who have been released from prison and are serving a portion of their sentences among the community.
73. User Interface Designer (or) Usability Engineer
I make software or websites “useable” for normal people via various methods. It’s a specialty of the computer/software industry.
74. Medical Transcriptionist
I listen to doctors dictating their notes for people’s medical records and type that.
75. Director of a small public library
It’s my job to see that everything about the library runs smoothly, from keeping up the collection of books, movies, magazines, audio books, and other media to coming up with ideas for library programming (like Summer Reading) to telling about the library in our community.
76. Office Manager for a plumbing company
I’m responsible for everything from making sure the paychecks are written to making sure we have staples and paper in the office.
77. Assistant Stage Manager for a theater company
I’m in charge of coordinating designers, directors and actors, running rehearsals, producing rehearsal reports, maintaining the production book, and calling all the cues during the show.
78. Substitute Teacher/Independent Contractor for a library
I create and run age-appropriate literacy-based programs for kids aged four to eighteen.
79. Accounts Manager
I make sure people pay use money that they owe us and that bills are being sent out on time.
80. Producer/Programmer at a radio station
I push all the buttons and levers to make sure the show going out sounds good. I select the music I’m going to play on my show and what order the songs will go it. I have to make sure there are no FCC violations (songs that are dirty or offensive).
81. Restaurant Hostess
When you go to a restaurant, I’m the person who greets you at the door and takes you to your table, and gives you your menu, just like if you were hosting a party at your house.
82. Private Piano instructor
I teach kids how to play the piano in a one-on-one setting, not a classroom.
83. Travel Agent
I am licensed to take resort reservations, and make packages including airfare, resort accommodations, tickets, and entire vacation getaways.
84. Marketing Communications Coordinator
I am the person who actually brings to life the ideas and strategies and plans that our Marketing Department thinks up.
85. English Teacher
86. Airbrush Artist/Shop Owner
I am the one who does both the actual airbrush work and the ordering of stock, selling to customers, and arranging for advertising.
87. Water Systems Chemist with the City of Detroit
I do the analysis necessary to keep the wastewater treatment plant (the biggest one in the world right now) running on a day-to-day basis.
88. Assistant Professor of Physics
I teach at a small liberal arts college and try to do original research at the same time.
89. Design Engineer
I’m an electrical engineer, who can be involved in software development, testing, system modeling, script (short program) maintenance, hardware design, testing, etc.
90. Computer Support Analyst for a major public university
I’m in charge of automating office systems for the part of the university that handles thesis and dissertation editing. I also do a lot of website work.
91. Minister
92. Recreation Therapist
That means that I help people through the benefits of recreational activities. This involves developing skills through recreational activities, so I would choose an activity that would work on whatever the person's limitation is. I also teach people how to independently participate in leisure activities. A lot of people, after they have an accident or stroke or something where they might lose some functioning and also those with pre-existing disabilities, don't know how to get involved. We teach our clients the skills they need, identify resources (either adapted equipment or places they can go to, people they can talk to, whatever), and help give them the tools to be able to be able to do anything they want to do for fun.
93. Board Operator at a radio station
Basically I’m a DJ but I don’t get to talk on the air.
94. Business Analyst for a computer software company
I am responsible for looking at the programs we create coming up with new ideas that our customers will want.
95. Assistant Attorney General
I work for the State of New York. The Attorney General’s office is basically a law firm for the State, and I’m one of its lawyers.
96. Third Mate, M/V GLOMAR EXPLORER (a drillship)/also Ensign, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
97. Equipment Development Engineer
Our group acts as the liason between our R&D, manufacturing operations and suppliers of semiconductor processing captial equipment to help develop wafer-processing equipment that meets the needs of emerging, cutting edge technology. Um... that is we help select and make work the equipment that goes in our fabs (factories that make computer chips), so that it does what we need it too and costs as little as possible.
98. Teacher of English conversation
I work at NOVA, Japan’s most popular McEnglish school.
99. Senior Copywriter/Associate Creative Director
I write 'copy' (all the words you seen in advertisements) and come up with the 'concepts' for the ads at a very big advertising agency. The associate creative director part means that I also manage other writers, designers, and creative types and meet with clients.
100. Certified Interior Designer(CID), and a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer(CMKBD)
I specialize in designing and remodeling homes. I'm not a designer who chooses couches or pillows or lamps; that's an interior decorator. I designs the space of the room, and make changes to the walls and ceilings, cabinetry, doors and windows, and lighting.
101. Unemployed job seeker
I used to work for the public library, but our budget was cut.
102. Database Group Leader in a biochemistry department
I manage two web databases for biologists. There are a lot of biologists in the world finding out all sorts of things about different living organisms, and reading the DNA sequence information which tells the organisms how to get by, day to day, how to grow and how to digest food and things like that. What my team does is take some of that information and organise it and search through it, find patterns and interesting things and identify bits of sequence where we can recognise what they do because they are similar to other ones we already have, and then show all this to people who are working with it in ways which will be useful to them.
103. Senior Technical Writer
The tech writer part means I write, edit, and publish software manuals. The senior part means that in theory I'm experienced enough to lead/coordinate other writers on a large project, write/maintain procedures, and edit more.
104. Social Services Examiner (sometimes called Social Welfare Examiner)
I'm one of the people who work in the welfare office, interviewing people to see if they might be eligible for Temporary Assistance (traditional welfare), Food Stamps, Medicaid or HEAP. If they are eligible, then we open a new case for them and administer it, making sure they get their benefits when they should and that if there are any changes to their circumstances, we adjust their case accordingly.
105. Lab Technician-Chemist for a sewerage district.
I work in a laboratory testing sewerage before and after it's treated and testing lakes and rivers to make sure their quality is constant.
106. "Six Sigma Plus Organization Engineering Black Belt"
I think that may be the goofiest title anyone has given you so far. A Six Sigma Black Belt is trained to help other people in an engineering company look at what they do and figure out how to do it more efficiently and with fewer mistakes. Because I'm in my company's Six Sigma Department, I do this full time; there are also people trained as Black Belt's who work those skills in as part of their regular jobs. Six Sigma started mostly with making manufacturing more efficient, but it's branched out not to all parts of our business. I work with Engineering departments who design airplane parts; those are becoming more and more computerized and my specialty is working with the software people who design and create those programs.
107. Writing Tutor
I discuss writing concepts with students and Stony Brook University.
108. ICP Analyst
ICP is short for Inductively Coupled Plasma, which is an analytical instrument. What it comes down to is I'm a chemist that works with analytical instrumentation, and I work for a geoscientific laboratory. In essence, I "cook rocks" and tell you what's in them.
109. Librarian/ Marriage and Family Counselor
After getting my master's degree in library science, I worked as a librarian at a small liberal arts 4 year college.
After getting my master's degree in counseling psychology, I had to pass a test to become a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor. Although I could have worked in many areas, I chose to help clients who were going through a challenging time in their lives.
110. Assistant Life Sciences Librarian
Assistant Proffesor of Library Science
I help run the Life Sciences Library (Agriculture, Biology and related subjects) but am not in charge of it. It means I'm a faculty member here. That means I have to publish and am eligible for tenure and promotion.
111. Commis (or Prep) Chef
I worked in the kitchen of a small pub. Basically my job was to cook all the starters, make the salads, the side dishes and the puddings that people ordered. I also had to do a lot of prep work so we'd have enough vegetables and things each day.
112. Creative Director/Consultant for a marketing company
As a Creative Director, I work with clients to help them create communications that support their brand & strategy requirements. As a Consultant, I work with clients to help them create the actual brand & strategy.
113. Freelance data entry and analysis for oil companies
Basically, every few weeks, I get handed a stack of paper with reports from oil wells and have to sift through the information for the relevant data and enter it into spreadsheets.
114. Director of Finance
I manage a group of people who create the budgets, update forecasts and answer questions about how the company is making and spending its money. We also manage the money by making sure only the people who are supposed to spend money do so and that the money we have in the bank is in the right place and is earning interest.
115. System Administrator
I work for Greenpeace International, and my job is to make sure that all internet services work and are secure for all of our offices around the world, travelling activists, and our three ships. I also help to make sure that all of the technical bits (getting video back to the office to be sent to newspapers and tv, making sure that e-mail is working, etc) work before, during and after actions.
116. Senior Scouting Coordinator for a small private firm that helps high school athletes find college scholarships
What this means is that I manage the assignments for our national scouting team - I tell them where to go when and give them the names of prospective clients to meet with, collate all data on our thousands of potential clients, and create the travelling schedule for the scouts and my bosses.
117. Student in upper sixth form at my local Upper School (England).
Basically that's a fancy way of saying I'm in my last year of school before university.
118. Project Manager
This means I make a lot of lists, taking input from different people. Once I have the list items, I make sure that someone is paying attention to them, whether it's working on a software fix, getting additional training or information, or that the items are being tested further.
119. Special Events Director, Relay For Life Specialist for the American Cancer Society
A Special Events Director is a person who designs and organizes all of the different small activities that happen at a big event -- think of a Field Day at school with all of the different games and contests and snacks and scoring and prizes. Because I'm a Relay For Life specialist, I'm in charge of half of the Relay events in my office (7) -- special all night walking parties for people with cancer and the people who raise money to find a cure for cancer.
120. Vet. Technician
In a vet practice, I do everything except prescribe medicine, diagnose and major surgery.
121. Assistant editor for a small publisher
It's somewhere between entry-level assistant to an editor and being an editor. That is, I'm an assistant to an editor of college textbooks, but I also have my own projects.
122. Telecommunicator III
It means that I have progressed to the third level by learning new functions. I started as a 9-1-1 call taker. I learned several radio functions and can now perform all law enforcement radio and telephone functions (I answer 9-1-1 calls and dispatch to officers as well as access NCIC.)
123. Educational Clinician
I’m still studying at university in Scotland right now, but I will be graduating in June. For the last two years, I’ve worked as a teacher, or "Educational Clinician." It’s a mouthful, but it helps to distinguish between people like me and regular school teachers, who have to have some kind of degree or certificate to teach. I was working in a Learning Center, not a school, you see – it was like a private school for people with learning disabilities.
124. Lecturer
I’m a Lecturer in English and Topical Discussion (like Current Affairs) in the Department of English and International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing
125. Computer Contractor
That means I work with computers short term, non-permanent positions (anywhere from 3 days to 3 months, with my average being about 1 ½ months.
126. Real Estate Assistant
That means I help out my employer, who is a Real Estate Agent
Thanks once again for the gift of your responses! You people rock.
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Date: 2004-04-23 09:14 am (UTC)