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"In a bid to achieve maximal hipness and happiness, companies, particularly in the tech world, have collectively begun to create bizarre new positions or to attach peculiar names to the same old corporate paper-pushing nine-to-fives. A lot of these jobs have a bizarrely spiritual flavor \u2014 \u201Cevangelists\u201D and \u201Cprophets\u201D \u2014 while others try and infuse excitement where there is none \u2014 \u201CJedi\u201D and \u201Cheroes.\u201D Much of this might be a way of skirting around the grim reality that life in a cubicle is neither exciting nor godly, or that work on the retail line often lacks excitement and moral stakes. Earlier this week, I wrote about the rise of\u00A0chief happiness officers. Now, here are 15 more completely ridiculous job titles:\n1. Digital Prophet: AOL fills this position with\u00A0something named \u201CShingy,\u201Dwho holds dominion over profitable marketing strategies.\n2. Retail Jedi: Companies (like customer management corporation Convergys) use\u00A0this moniker\u00A0for entry-level employees on the sales line. Sounds more demeaning than exciting.\n3. Swiss Army Knife: A synonym for a generalist gofer,\u00A0swiss army knives\u00A0at companies like Bitcore, a Pittsburgh software firm, have the double threat of utter willingness and the total capability of being used to any end by their employer.\n4. Dream Alchemist: A\u00A0dream alchemist\u00A0(employed by tech startups such as Kyoger and QuickStep), which is also known as the \u201Chead of creative\u201D or the \u201Clead designer,\u201D finds ways to convert ideas into brands as annoyingly as possible.\n5.\u00A0Direct Marketing Demi-God:\u00A0Vistage International, a consulting firm, apparently markets on a Zeusian level, and will therefore only hire a demigod to manage their marketing division.\n6. Kindle Book Evangelist: An Amazon employee devoted to\u00A0preaching, marketing and selling\u00A0the Kindle platform to authors, agents and customers alike.\n7. Chief Inspiration Officer: Out to\u00A0motivate the world, whether the world wants it or not, the chief inspiration officer\u2019s infectious joy and enthusiasm motivates employees and raises sales to the same psychotic backbeat.\n8. Happiness Heroes: Buffer, a social media app startup,\u00A0employs\u00A0several happiness heroes who are tasked with pumping joy into users one click at a time \u2014 by managing the company\u2019s social media presence and dealing with its PR.\n9. Wizard of Light Bulb Moments: A walking nexus of positive thoughts and inspirational quotes,\u00A0this specific wizard\u00A0uses most of his magic on\u00A0management consulting\u00A0for various companies.\n10. Chief Knowledge Officer:\u00A0The VIA Agency, an advertising firm, maintains a knowledge executive to provide \u201Cwisdom to our clients, not just information.\u201D\n11. Chief Observance Officer: The Orwellians over at Internet marketing firm WebiMax use a chief observance officer to \u201Ckeep an eye on the office environment,\u201D\u00A0Forbes reports.\n12. Innovation Sherpa: Microsoft has a\u00A0Sherpa for innovation\u00A0who, in addition to research of some sort, presumably does all the work and gets none of the credit?\n13. Purpose Promoter: Consulting firm\u00A0Delivering Happiness\u00A0doesn\u2019t have an employee to manage sales; they hired someone to manage purpose, instead.\n14. Fashion Evangelist: Tumblr employs\u00A0this guy, whose job is to connect the big, established brands with talented yet unheard-of fashion bloggers.\n15. Genius: A job title so classic that it might be difficult to notice how ridiculous it is \u2014 every\u00A0Apple store has \u201Cgeniuses\u201D\u00A0tailored to solve your individual technological foibles and faults."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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