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I voted in Engineer but I don't consider that the right term. I always use Software Engineer.
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"The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness")."
Most of my programming is problem-solving and simplifying complex systems & processes. So I agree that there should have been an option for "software engineer".
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Same here, I use Software Engineer.
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Software Designer
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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I'm a software Author and Artist. Starting with a concept or back-of-the-napkin idea, I usually have to create the spec from at most two pages of requirements from the customer. From there I use my artistic abilities to create a user interface and finally the final tome. Of course it's rarely THE FINAL product as additional features are asked for by the customer, but then most creative works aren't accepted as-is by any publisher the first go-round.
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An "Engineer" is someone who drives a train.  I'm a Senior Software Engineer
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: An "Engineer" is someone who drives a train.
It's not my place to run the train
The whistle I can't blow.
It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.
It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
-- Anon
Doesn't this describe your job? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That it!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I have a manager title, which is Infrastructure Manager because I am never just dealing with Networks, PC's and software. However, I usually say "System Developer" because I never just write software, either. In any one project (which I have also managed) I can be a bit-twiddler, process engineer, DBA, purchaser, trainer, support, maintenance, compliance officer ... well, anyone reading this already gets it, I need not carry on.
 
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If I say Software Engineer, people generally have no idea what that means.
If I say Application Developer, it doesn't encompass all the other garbage I have to do at work.
If I say Computer Programmer, people go "Cool. My computer isn't working correctly, can you come look at it for me?"
To heck with it, I give up.
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Just because some don't understand what I mean by developer I qualify it by saying that I am a software developer.
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Sure, I use all these other fancy words in my resume, but I am a programmer. That's the only title I want on my tomb stone.
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So, just back from vacation. Standing nipple-deep in comfy water at the pool's swim-up bar, the conversation inevitably turns to "so what do you do" (soon after where one is from). So, I've answered this question a lot, lately, addressing the unwashed masses:
"In real life I was a research chemist. Now I'm just a computer programmer."
Sort of odd. There never was a border between the two. Perhaps my best work was the two.
Upon reflection (several seconds worth), what the hell's the difference? As long as I'm having fun.
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It's a funny one, isn't it. "Now I'm just a computer programmer"
I say that a lot too. My degree was in astrophysics. Now I'm just a computer programmer.
It's essentially the same as: I used to do X. Now I build the future. (and I'll make your job redundant. Sorry)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It may be the Royal WE, or just schizophrenia.*
We gave it some thought. Hard to tell which it is; likely, both; probably doesn't matter, anyway.
*So long as I cover all bases.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It may be the Royal WE
How about the Editorial "we"?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hogan prefers to talk about himself in the third person. 
Hogan
Hogan
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It depends on who I am talking to.
My roles here are the senior architect and the senior developer.
For the next months I will even jump into "Head of IT" while my boss is on a longer (planned) absence and I will be in his position for that time.
While in this role, my coding output will be significantly reduced, but I am still senior dev and responsible for the architecture here.
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Yeah, but what do you call yourself when a long lost friend asks "so where did you end up?"
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"A code monkey controlling the stock of bananas for the other monkeys" ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) 
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...officially.
But I hold myself as developer and when a customer pisses me off I'm the ultimate authority (and if they do not do what I say they can do it alone!)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But I don't call me anything.
I was told I should not speak with myself if I wanted to be taken seriously 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: if I wanted to be taken seriously
Why would you want to be taken seriously? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Ask for a rise?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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