Simple reply: ...........being a well paid SCM specialist..........
Slightly more complex reply: ........ being a well paid <whatever the current buzzword is> specialist......
Seriously - It doesn't matter what names or titles you either give yourself or get given! These will change from year to year and you may need to adapt your cv and your vocabulary to fit into the "flavour of the moment".......
Personally I would lose the "S" bit..... There is a wide market for "CM" not just "SCM" and all the principals of good process etc apply to all of them. (Note ALL not both - loads of "stuff" benefits from CM not just Software and Tin).
Keep upto date on the buzzwords (and even more detail ;-) ) so that you can talk the talk.....
Be prepared to defend your position and don't take all the bullsh*t and moonshine too seriously!!
Just take a step back and think about some of these (trendy) terms:
"Black Belt", "Scrum Master", "Agile", "Extreme programming" and even (forgive me) "Architect".........
All just ways of "sexing up" pretty mundane day to day stuff (pretty important stuff - don't get me wrong) to make it sound cool!!!!
Keep your head down, learn to speak the gibberish but make sure you keep your eye on the underlying value and you should go far!!
