Chosen Oil Viscosity...?

Maybe not a high-school-diploma career path.

 

Hahah most certainly not!

"Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion. It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering."

...tribologist are walking brains!

 

When I was in the drafting office of a smallish fabricator, my business card said "Checker". Then went back to a consulting engineering firm (one I'd been with years previous, under new management), my title was something like (actual terminology eludes me now...): "Senior Technical Consultant". Some horseshit like that.

The litmus test: if someone asks you what you do, you trot out the latter, you'll get puzzled looks.