Good Grief!

Since the week was full of office annoyances, causing me to make snarky remarks about other peoples’ jobs, this week’s top 5 is devoted to odd occupations:

• NASA’s master sniffer:
  

  [George Aldrich] is NASA’s nasalnaut, the man colleagues call the Most Smella Fella. He has performed a record 771 official smelling missions. [snip] Spacecraft are notoriously stinky. In orbit, they experience a full day/night cycle every 90 minutes. For half that time the sun heats the cabin, causing objects to off-gas, releasing volatile chemicals offensive to mammalian noses. [snip] A particularly bad stench can end a mission.

That’s it. I love doing the Friday Top 5, but there’s no time this week, so it will have to be Friday Top 1. I did stumble across something else, though, when I was looking up jobs–my own job description.

I mean, who writes this stuff? Boss-across-the-hall outdid himself on this one:

Manage the vision, design and implementation of data warehouse architectures needed to deliver effective business intelligence solutions. Oversee the data design of data warehouses, including scope and order of implementation. Participate in the assessment and realization of business intelligence opportunities. Facilitate the evaluation and selection of data warehouse related software/vendor services. Monitor industry trends and identify relevant emerging technologies; participate in user groups and industry associations. Work with IT and non-IT business units and project managers to design and develop effective business intelligence solutions to help facilitate business decisions, with minimum supervision. Develop and execute project plans. Gather business intelligence requirements, analyze source systems data, create and implement required metadata, define and implement UI requirements, and define and implement business intelligence delivery mechanisms. Recommend and execute improvement opportunities to streamline the delivery and increase the quality of existing and new business intelligence solutions. Provide production support to existing business intelligence infrastructure. Work independently in a fast-paced environment to drive business intelligence requirements to reality.