Made Up Job Titles
Church of Lazlo Podcasts
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I saw this, it seems like the kind of thing that's right up your alley last low. |
| 0:03.8 | And that is, as time goes on, we change, you know, what we call certain things and that |
| 0:13.0 | includes job titles. |
| 0:14.5 | Okay. |
| 0:15.5 | So there's jobs that have existed and they change titles over time. |
| 0:20.4 | Then there's also jobs that are, you know, new because they didn't exist, like an app |
| 0:26.0 | developer or a CrossFit instructor or whatever, you know, new things, exactly, exactly. |
| 0:32.1 | So those, those new ones come along. |
| 0:34.9 | And this thing that I was reading, they make it seem like because they think it's because |
| 0:38.9 | these new things come along and that's always going to be happening. |
| 0:41.7 | That when you have a job that's been around forever, like secretary, you want to spruce |
| 0:47.6 | it up a bit. |
| 0:48.6 | I always thought that the secretary thing that they changed probably because it was so, |
| 0:52.4 | it was associated with a woman's job for so long that they thought, well, we don't |
| 0:56.0 | want to call it that anymore. |
| 0:57.6 | We'll call it administrative assistant. |
| 1:00.0 | And that will, you know, at least for a little while, confuse people. |
| 1:03.8 | And if someone says I got a job as an administrative assistant, they'll go, okay, sounds important. |
| 1:07.8 | What they were saying is that especially with startup companies, but that a lot of new |
| 1:11.1 | companies do this, they come up with these ridiculous job titles. |
| 1:16.2 | And the goal is to try and inspire people or make them feel important. |
| 1:20.0 | And then of course, there are some people who give themselves these important job titles. |
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