Job Titles

Someone can take a job for its title with the real intention of using it as a stepping stone to a job in order to manipulate fools who themselves care about meaningless things.  This, even if manipulation of intellectual insects is the explicit goal, is a legitimate approach.  It does not require false or assumed beliefs or any sort of commitment disproportionate to the actual objective nature of the workplace.  A job is just a job, and the title is not even as significant as the job itself or the money it earns, as it is a mere word or phrase and might not even accurately reflect the nature of the position.  More than just one's employer or other prospective employers might care, though.  Coworkers (especially if they gave into the cultural bullshit of certain regions of the world) might actually respect someone more as a person because of such rank, similarly to how many non-rationalists regard people highly or lowly on the basis of educational background.

Educational elitism is not valid, for it conflates intelligence (rationality, which someone can only possess by being rationalistic [1]) with education and especially with arbitrary credentials, having the added error of discriminating against those without access to formal education, for financial or other reasons, on a basis they cannot necessarily control at all.  In place of educational credentials or perhaps alongside them, job titles are despite their irrelevance treated by some as indicators of characteristics like intelligence.  Aside from how even job promotions are to some extent entirely beyond one's control—no one is guaranteed to be noticed for genuinely hard work or rewarded accordingly even if they are (you could be ignored, kept in place for productivity, or punished through lack of promotion)—positions and tenure have nothing to do with whether someone is a philosophical rationalist for the right reasons and actually understands or cares about things which are true and significant.

People who scramble to obtain jobs with particular titles, such as managerial or executive titles, so that they can as quickly as possible make more money and securely escape the "rat race" of asinine workplace obsession and American capitalism are not in error for this—if they go no further.  Anyone else who actually cares about job titles for almost any other reason is a fool, one who has either bowed down to social conditioning (and even if society was right, assuming its ideas are true is still irrational) or devoted themselves to some form of egoism or emotionalism.  Looking to job titles instead of one's alignment with the necessary truths of reason, which depends on neither personal belief or perception nor societal trends, to maintain self-esteem might be popular in some circles, but it is utterly pathetic and erroneous.

The sole way to otherwise care about job titles and yet not be irrational is to, making no assumptions and having no philosophically false priorities all while knowing reason, subjectively appreciate professional duties and effort while strictly recognizing them for what they really are: social constructs made to serve a broader social construct that itself only matters as a means to a financial end, so that workers can survive without resorting to begging or sins like theft.  Work of a professional kind is nothing more than this, and so job titles within the workplace are even lesser than the general workplace itself.  There is nothing rational or righteous about someone because of their career (except concerning certain jobs if certain worldviews are true; for instance, see Deuteronomy 23:17-18), and any thrill derived from work and its titles or prestige is purely subjective.

[1].  For just some posts where I address the truth and nature of genuine rationalism, see here:

A.  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2023/08/it-does-not-follow.html

B.  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2024/04/true-skepticism.html