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June, 2001
Job Titles of the Future
By Alison Overholt of FastCompany
Magazine
WHO Tim Cleaver
COMPANY Amazing Online Marketing
AGE 24
HAS HELD TITLE FOR Seven months
PREVIOUS TITLE Biology major, Portland State University
Working like a slave? Hey, make the most of it. That's what
Tim Cleaver did. As an intern at a Web company that
is striving to meet the online design needs of an increasingly
Web-ified Portland, Oregon, Cleaver is at the beck and call
of everyone from designers to senior project managers. So
he has given himself a new title. Says Cleaver: "I'm
cheap labor, and I do the stuff that no one else wants to
do."
So. Slave Boy?
My coworkers have referred to me by a few nicknames, including
Asok, Young Jedi, and Young Grasshopper. But I feel the warmest
tingly feeling when people call me Slave Boy. Occasionally,
if we're working late on a Friday evening they'll say, "Slave
Boy, bring me a beer!"
How were you captured?
My roommate brought home some books on HTML. I started learning
the stuff and thought, this is what I want to do. So I quit
my restaurant job, looked in the phone book for the nearest
Web-development company, and asked if I could hang out there
and see what they did.
What's been your most liberating task?
Doing the coding for the very first project I worked on: a
Web site for a local restaurant called Queen of Sheba.
Will "Slave Boy" be on your résumé?
Sure. If a company doesn't want to hire me because I used
to have a goofy title, I probably don't want to work there
anyway.
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