From my Lightning Talk at Codemash 2.0.1.5. A quick taxonomy of architects. It may be you, or you could work with one of these...

1. A Pandemonium of Architects
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2. Ar-chi-tect - n.
: a person who designs and guides a plan or
undertaking

3. Sub-par-chi-tect - n.
: not a very good architect; may have been a
Senior Developer elevated as a “career
track” promotion

4. Side-car-chi-tect - n.
: Latches onto a particularly powerful
manager, who makes most of the decisions,
and this guy is just along for the ride.

5. Bi-zarre-chi-tect - n.
: makes weird, almost capricious decisions,
and can't really articulate why

6. Ba-zaar-chi-tect - n.
: takes all kinds of frameworks and cobbles
them in with no rhyme or reason

7. Bron-to-saur-chi-tect - n.
: Has a lot of really great experience... from
the 90's; enforces extremely old patterns and
will not learn new frameworks; if it's not
15 years old, it's newfangled.

8. Se-mi-nar-chi-tect - n.
: Often the most enterprisey of the
enterprise architects; they go to conferences,
bizzle with the vendors, and make decisions
based on a drink, a wink, and a handshake.

9. An-ar-chy-tect - n.
: no design, anything goes; design is in
shambles

10. Rock-star-chi-tect - n.
: does it all and can't delegate; takes all the
glory

11. Snar-chi-tect - n.
: great at using sarcasm to drown out other
peoples ideas but doesn't provide great
direction

12. Lost-My-Spar-ki-tect - n.
: doesn't care anymore; lets developers do
whatever.

13. You Need to Quit Your Job
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14. You Need to Quit Your Job
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(Architect)

15. You Need to Quit Your Job
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(Architect)
9:15 a.m. tomorrow - Nile