MGX2009 Trip Trivia #1: "Developer Evangelist? What the hell is that?"

Published 20 July 09 10:29 AM | norman

Seperti juga orang Indonesia lainnya yang masuk ke US, tentunya haruslah melewati Secondary Inspection meskipun sudah beberapa kali ke US. Kali ini, ada diskusi/interview menarik yang saya alami dengan petugas yang saya temui di Secondary Inspection tersebut - sambil dia mengupdate data saya di sistem dia. Berikut petikannya...

Petugas: "So, you work for Microsoft. Mr. Sasono, what is your position in Microsoft?"

Gua: "Developer Evangelist!"

Petugas (sambil kaget dan senyum menahan tawa): "What? What the hell is that?"

Gua: "Well, you can put Developer Advisor. I give advice for Software Developers. New technologies. Best Practices."

Petugas: "Let me put Software Developer then.. so that my manager would understand"

Beginilah kalau kerja di profesi yang gak populer...

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# Agus Kurniawan said on July 20, 2009 06:55 PM:

busyet, orang ms yang notabane perusahan US juga dicurigai masuk ke US...hmm,no idea to back to US nih :(

# zeddy said on July 21, 2009 08:46 PM:

kalo gw lain donk (btw, bebas dari secondary, jadi masih di pos pertama):

officer: explain your title, Academic Developer Evangelist.

z: i build demos, go to various campuses across indonesia, and show them the cool technologies that students can build with Microsoft tools.

officer: ah, so you're an engineer?

z: *sigh... yes ma'am.

officer: *laughing & stamping my passport

# norman said on July 22, 2009 03:17 AM:

he..he..

The kick in the teeth di interview gua itu di statement dia... "so that my manager would understand...". Kayaknya di mana2 manager itu susah understand something ya... :)