i'm an insane asylum director = nanny = zookeeper = triage nurse = brain surgeon = mom = circus ringmaster = therapist = lion tamer = superaction hero....no, wait, that's not what it says on my business cards....(pulls out biz card, squints at tiny writing therein)...oh, yeah.
i forget sometimes what my REAL title is:
i'm the network manager & head programmer/analyst for a large (350+ computer) academic department at a large university. this means i do everything from hardware to packets, from debugging code in languages i can't write (seriously) to fixing hardware i've never seen powered up before (seriously!), to troubleshooting funky network problems that turn out to be the result of too much hamster cage dust in the network closet (how could i make this stuff up?). UNIX and networking are my main gigs, but i do a lot of PC/Macs, and lots of web work.
but i swear, sometimes i'm tempted to put "insane asylum director/superaction hero" on my biz cards, because it's basically the same thing: save the world from itself while handing out sympathy and straitjackets.
i'm now on my first V A C A T I O N in four years and i've already spent two days of it on the phone with my inmates, er, i mean customers, assuring them that they can live without me for two weeks.
silverwing
[This message has been edited by silverwing (edited 23 December 1999).]