How About Some Misleading Job Titles?

These are all real jobs. And some of them are pretty cool. But their names could manifest an idea of what their job is that is very much not what the job is actually about.


Dendrochronologist

Sounds like: Psychic trans dimensional historian. In order to get the chronologies right this person does battle with creatures manifested from the minds of wizards in other dimensions.

Actually is: Someone that looks at tree rings.


Typographer





Sounds like: A person who, at birth, sees the destiny of someone and classifies them into one of several warrior castes.

Actually is: Someone that creates fonts.

Historic Site Interpreter

Sounds like: A type of mage who communes with ruins to let us know what the lost souls of those that died there want from beyond the grave.

Actually is: A tour guide.

Archaeoacoustician

Sounds like: Someone that can kill someone in the distant past with sound. May or may not be in the employ of a super villain in a volcano lair.

Actually is: Someone that figures out how sound waves bounce around in archeological ruins.

Paleogeographer

Sounds like: A navigator that tags along with time travellers to make sure they don't get lost in the middle Carboniferous.

Actually is: Someone that figures out where continents were roughly located in the middle Carboniferous by analyzing rock magnetic readings.

Information Coordinator

Sounds like: An important piece of a military command post. Potentially someone that figures out, based on fragmented reports, if the battle is won or lost.

Actually is: Someone in IT.

Cryptanalyst 

Sounds like: Someone who uses a stethoscope and a magic puzzle box to break into ancient tombs.

Actually is: Someone that is very good at math and can use that ability to break codes.