Last night I realized something important about myself professionally. I’ve known for a long time that I’m no graphic designer, though I do understand that language and possess a few of those skills, however roughly. I also came to realize several years back that I’m really not even a web designer or a developer as I honestly hate doing that stuff sometimes, unless it’s for my own projects or for people who I enjoy working with. And I’m definitely not a web application programmer, though I know enough ASP and PHP to make some interesting things happen. I also have skills as a user interface designer and an information architect, as well as a technical trainer and copywriter. Lastly, I’ve done a hell of a lot of blogging (some podcasting) and worked with lots of different types of content management and online publishing systems, and done more than a fair share of online marketing, both as a publisher and advertiser and SEO.

This isn’t a job for my “mad computer skillz” though so much as it is a moment of personal re-discovery: what I am is actually a computerist. I don’t know why people don’t use this term. They should. It’s awesome. I can drill down even more specifically though: I am a generalist in web interpretation in the early-middle computerism period (with the technological and aesthetic distinctions that entails) with expertise in laptop publishing strategies (step-child of desktop publishing).

Computers one day won’t exist as the objects which we now recognize as being equivalent to that word. Computerism, you could say, is a dying profession…