I’m going to paraphrase Adam Savage.
I am mediocre at a lot of things. But the way I combine and use those skills are what make my skill set unique and what makes them great.
I am mediocre at a lot of things. But the way I combine and use those skills are what make my skill set unique and what makes them great.
I love this. It pretty much perfectly describes how I got every job I’ve ever had as an adult.
You can focus on 3 or 4 things and be expert at all of them if you uninstall all your mobile games.
If I had all those skills, I would also try to climb up and look at butt mountain.
don’t minmax your skills, kids. if you do you’ll end up like me
I focused too much on software development, now I find it tedious and boring, plus AI will replace me in like 3 years, womp womp.
Look at it this way: after AI replaces you, a lot of companies are going to eventually realize AI can’t cut it. Once that happens, you folks will be in high demand. You just… have to find a way to survive in the interim. :(
AI will replace me in like 3 years
I will have NONE of this defeatism.
I’m in this picture and I’m loving it
Me, too.
However I am finding it hard to get a job. I got laid off in September. Employers want a square peg for a square hole. “Cisco engineer”, for example. I know enough to get around Cisco, Fortigate and a few others. And project management. And servers. And a dozen other technologies. With 20+ years experience. But I don’t find anyone paying enough for someone with a diverse skill set.
That’s more the fault of the company than you. We are at a point where companies don’t want to “waste money” waiting for a great employee to train up on their system and want drop in place cogs or to go for someone way cheaper abroad. My company is asking to only hire people that know our proprietary software or we hire people in the Philippines that aren’t even trained.
Don’t mistake the malice of the owning class as a personal failure for being multivaried, you would never be perfect in their eyes so don’t look at yourself through their lens.
Luck and networking is what gets people jobs these days.
