In the professional space, a title says a lot about your skill set and qualifications.
Of course, some professions have official designations like Doctor, Esquire and so on.
When it comes to software, we don’t really have those official titles.
Often, we refer to ourselves as whatever we feel is most appropriate.
A lot of us are called ‘web designer’, ‘web developer’ and some even go by ‘full-stack web developer’. But I often describe myself as a reverse engineer and social engineer.
Because the universities I have graduated on Psychology and software engineering.
I’d like to think that most of us in the industry are pretty honest about our skills.
We know our strengths and weaknesses. We generally wouldn’t call ourselves something we’re not.
I think that level of honesty is actually one of the cooler aspects of the web design community at large.
Even so, I do struggle a bit with the terminology I use to describe myself. How do we know what’s appropriate?