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Job title? No, thank you!
"This makes me wonder how soon someone will think up a far better notion for this 'visiting card' concept which has been around since at least Georgian times, and which today seems so distant from really connecting with people as the focus is purely on someone's job title rather than any meaningful information about that person. Is that how people see themselves? Just described as a job title?
I don't have a job title on my cards. Instead I have one of Hugh McLeod's cartoons on the back that expresses a tongue-in-cheek view of the world as I see it. While that might be a bit too abstract for some people, it might tell them something about me that a job title never could. Plus it's a great conversation starter." (NevOn)
I hate job titles. I had to come up with one for my article at elearningeuropa.info. I just wrote down communication researcher, but I don't think that reflects the things I'm doing right now.
Lately, a lot of people ask me what I'm doing right now (regarding work after graduation). My answer to that: well, a lot of things, where do you want me to start? A few weeks ago I started visiting my old fencing club again for the first time in eight years. People I know from back then ask what I've been doing during those years. My answer: well, a lot of things, where do you want me to start? People find it very difficult to place me. I did communication studies, but I'm not into marketing or PR. I tell people I connected communication and philosophy and right there I've lost them. People ask me what I do for a living. I tell them I try to create my own work in different kind of fields, and run experiments for free right now, and they're confused. For some months I've been thinking about a company name for myself to register officially. But what is a name that reflects all the things I am, am doing and want to do in the future? The same with printing good old business cards: what on earth should I put on the card? Every now and then I just tell people to Google on elmine, click the first hit and surf around on my weblog. Maybe that's all I need for now ;-)
