[bushido]

> does that make your job search harder when you leave to a place that doesn't hand out VP titles?

Doesn't make the job search harder within the financial industry. In my experience the majority people are recruited/courted extensively for positions in the industry, hence it's not quite a "job search" in the majority of the cases.

On the other hand, if they could choose other titles, on the lines of "lead guitar" they may have trouble with job search. People generally seem to be very particular about industry-based titles.

[ianstallings]

I agree, with such a stupid title as "lead guitar" people would never know how important I am and they might not court me. Which I am dying to do. I hope to have one day a whole wall filled with titles, certificates, and bonafides that I can point to and say "look at all those pieces of paper". Because writing software, well that's just a distraction from my real job - getting important titles..