What do you think of this job title?
inkantra asked: I’d like to know what the average person thinks when I tell them what my job title is. It is a little unusual. Please give your first impressions without looking it up. I am an Assistive Technology Specialist. Knowing what first comes to your head will help me better explain my job to people and give them an accurate picture of my job.I really do mean Assistive, not Assistant. Assistive Technology Specialist is the real job title I have today.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
You help engineering or technicians with paper work? Just a guess.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Actually it sounds like a contradiction. It is hard to link Assitive with Specialist, as one indicates low level of knowledge, the other high.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Homer Simpson is a Special Technology Assistant.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
You help people with devices to aid them to function better, they can’t
function too well without said device.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Did you mean AssistANT Technology Specialist or AssistIVE Technology Specialist? From the word “Assistive”, I get the impression that the job is related to the use of technology with regards to physical handicaps, such as computer assisted communications (like what Stephen Hawking uses to create speech).
April 17th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Sounds like you assist people with their technological difficulties.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I assume you assist people with technology! Without looking it up, I assume you help the handicapped to implement technology to help them in their daily lives. Right?
April 20th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I have never used the word Assistive. Is that what your job is really titled? Did you mean Assistant? It sounds like you assist a computer technician (IS a/k/a Integrated Software).
April 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I think I would prefer Assistive Technology Consultant.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
first i think it should be assistant
April 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Sounds to me you work at a factory. You assist by assembling a component to a computer, maybe. You specialize on the processor component, possibly.