My new job title is called ‘head peon’

This weekend, I went to Subway for a meatball sandwich. That’s a pretty good sandwich, my wife and I both like them.

As I was checking out, I saw a sign that said, “Now hiring sandwich artists.”

I kind of giggled at the sign.

When I was a kid, I had a job flipping burgers. I wonder what that job would be called today, hamburger artist? How about pizza Picasso for a pizza cooking job?

As I ate my meatball sub and munched on some potato chips, I decided to lookup funny job titles. I found several that were amusing.

Apparently there is a trend of using the word “ninja” in a lot of job titles: Computer ninja, lawn ninja, maintenance ninja and so forth. I had no idea there were so many ninjas. I wondered if they wore black robes and had a sword.

Here in southeast Oklahoma, I’ve seen a job opening for a “chicken sexer.” If you don’t understand, that is basically a person looks at baby chickens all day to determine if they are boys or girls.

I wonder how many people have had to explain that when they went to a job outside of the poultry (chicken) industry. I bet that would strike up some interesting conversations.

I even found a job title of “cheif inspiration officer.” I had to read a little on that one.

As it turns out, companies actually have a person whose responsibility it is to make everyne believe in the company’s mission.

I thought about that for a minute.

I can just see the chief inspiration officer for the crematorium going about his day or maybe the chief inspiration officer at the proctologist office.

As I was thinking of job titles, I decided to bestow a job on myself. I am the new “head peon” of my farm.

I even created a job description for the head peon job, “if you are smart enough to figure what it means to be a head peon, then you are smart enough to be one.”

That’s actually pretty accurate for being a small family farmer.