Individual apprenticeship pattern blog post- Use your title.
Hi all and welcome to my blog where today I will be talking about the pattern “Use your title.” This pattern caught my attention for several reasons that I will go through in this blog post in detail. First, let’s start by explaining the pattern itself and give a little context of where the title comes from. Let’s say you work at a job and they give you a certain title, like “assistant pharmacist”. Some time later they will want to promote you. The title of your position will change but you are still going to get paid the same amount. For example, I was known as “CAD assistant designer” for a little bit in the beginning of my job. I worked hard for like 3 years, then I got “promoted” to “CAD designer” which means I am no longer an assistant designer. My responsibilities changed with it. The pay might be the same but others in the office, or even outside the office, will respect you more because of that title. My responsibilities are much different now.
If the Job title doesn’t match the description of what you see yourself doing, then there are things that you can do to change that. It stated the job description is a distraction and should be kept on the outskirts of your consciousness, but I don’t think I agree with that. For me, a job title is something that you should be proud of. If I am not proud of my job title, that just gives me more fire to try and work harder to get the job title I deserve. To solve this problem, you should write down a description of your job title and make sure it fits the work you do in the office and try to give details as if a stranger is reading your job description. Sometimes your job title does reflect the work you do, you could be indicated into a position of authority on your team but it doesn’t state that in the job description which is fine as long as everyone respects you and sees the work you are putting in.
From the blog CS@Worcester – Farouk's blog by afarouk1 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.