Please keep your answer brief and generic (i.e. no company/product names), only state a single occupation per reply, and upvote an existing reply instead of submitting a duplicate. Feel free to comment under an existing reply, if you want to get more info or state an opinion...
Not sure if OP is joking, but I knew a guy in grad school who did underwater ancient archeology. He spent every summer scuba diving in the Black Sea pulling up old pots. Sounds like nice work!
Sometimes, not always. People call themselves "engineer" a lot, but have no idea what "engineering" really is, which is more of a focus on the process than the technology. Therefore, developer and programmer are theoretically distinct from "software engineer" in strict terms. Too bad no official certification process exists for software engineers as does other fields of engineering.
I agree that it's too bad that there's no official licensure process (at least in the US). Strangely enough, when I asked on HN and reddit there seemed to be a lot of hostility to the idea. [1][2]
Titles should correspond to different things. But the lack of an enforced standard makes them meaningless. The actual practice in the workplace will have you doing the same thing. The practice of creation.
It will mess up the count if creators are divided by nonstandard titles.
