After 20 years it goes a little better!

Things are moving forward in the battle to get project management into the map as a respectable discipline, but there is long way to go before we as doctors and engineers are trademarks of a well-defined product with a reasonable balanced quality.

Try to consider the last five responses you got when you said "I am project manager at Company X". How often did they understand the answer to their question? 20 years ago there were virtually no immediate understanding.

For your own sake, keep the flag high no matter how small it is. If you are not proud of your discipline as a project manager and radiates it you can not expect that the others respects your job as a project manager.