tech industry is rotten with hyperspecialists utterly useless outside their domain of expertise
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so they obsessively learn about all the silly minutia of their chosen thing over the course of literally years
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this describes most working programmers making six figures thinking they're hot shit, it's frankly embarrassing
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whereas a competent generalist can outperform these sorts of people having just picked up the speciality on a lark
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because they have conceptual, abstract understanding and a strong ability to fit new topics into a full picture
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How do you sell this in a land of jerkoff certs & people who need to justify their own existence? I've had trouble cashing in on this.
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idk beyond "be obviously really smart"
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This works if you can get your foot in the door, but I did it and have hit a career wall especially trying to move toward InfoSec specialty
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Ive worked my way up to being IT Manager & a Security Officer at an ivy. Can't leave though, private sector won't even look at my resume.
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