Job titles Memes

From "senior dev with 18 years experience" to "no idea" about actual coding skills in 7 minutes flat. Nothing captures the tech industry's impostor syndrome epidemic quite like this. The beautiful irony of someone who abandoned actual programming to become a "vibe coder" (whatever that is) and still can't assess their own abilities. It's the career equivalent of putting "proficient in Microsoft Word" on your resume but not knowing how to change the font.

The job title inflation chart nobody asked for but everyone needed. Same person, different LinkedIn profile updates as they discover the salary brackets. "Coder" is the angry intern fixing bugs for pizza. "Programmer" is what you call yourself after learning a for-loop. "Developer" comes with the first paycheck that covers rent. "Software Engineer" appears magically after your first successful pull request. "Software Architect" is just you refusing to write code while drawing boxes on whiteboards at 3x the salary.

Ah, the corporate jargon olympics! The more words it takes to explain what you do, the more likely you're part of the tech industry's elaborate charade. First guy: "I'm a SaaS-based fintech sales analyst" = I cold call people trying to sell spreadsheets. Second one: "I develop & maintain automated capabilities" = I wrote one Python script that sends emails. Third contestant: "I create systems to record blockchain data" = I made a fancy Excel sheet nobody uses. Meanwhile, the only honest soul in tech: "I catch fish." Straight to the point, tangible results, no buzzwords required. The beard and pipe are just bonus authenticity points. The brutal truth: if your job title needs a paragraph of explanation and three rounds of buzzword bingo, you might be compensating for something!

After 8 years in the trenches, I still introduce myself as a "junior who's been around a while." Why accept the crushing responsibility of being "senior" when you can be a "señor" instead? Just add a sombrero, a bow tie, and suddenly your impostor syndrome has a fancy accent and better work-life balance. The flames in the background? That's just the production server I was supposed to be monitoring.

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute TRAGEDY of every IT professional's social life! 😭 You think you're impressing someone with your fancy "architect" title, only to watch their excitement PLUMMET into the abyss when you add those fatal two letters: "IT-". The disappointment is so palpable you could build a data center with it! One minute they're imagining you designing the next Burj Khalifa, the next they realize you're just the person who tells everyone to "try turning it off and on again." THE HORROR!