My Beatport signature said Network Administrator.
The title appeared under a Thanksgiving message. Small company, wide job, simple title.
The work already covered more than switches and cables. I was inside the mail host, IMAP access, queues, outside delivery, shared addresses, mailing lists, vacation responders, storage, and server hardware. Two days after the offer, I was sending hard-drive links.
Thanksgiving did not close the store. Beatport sold downloads to DJs in other countries and time zones. Customers could search and buy while the Denver office ate dinner. Labels could send music. Support messages could keep arriving.
One vacation notice asked people to resend messages after the holiday. It was another reason delivery and automatic replies had to work.
I had been at Beatport for a short time. The signature did not say director, architect, or executive. It said Network Administrator.
The store was open. The mail needed to move. I was the Network Administrator.
That title matched the work in front of me. The store was open. The mail needed to move.
The signature sat underneath an ordinary holiday message, not a promotion announcement. That made it more useful. It was the title I was actually sending every day.
Network Administrator covered the network, but the inbox around it already included servers, disks, accounts, IMAP, shared addresses, lists, and the mail queue. Small company titles rarely stopped exactly where the words stopped.
For now, those two words were mine.
They appeared under my name every time I sent a message from Beatport.