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You have a job and it has a name—a name of convenience. It exists so that when someone asks, “What do you do?” you can simply say, “I am a software engineer” rather than saying, “Well, there are these things called computers and computers run software and humans write software and I am one of those humans.”.
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Lopp, M. (2016). Titles Are Toxic. In: Managing Humans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2158-7_20
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