Could you talk about this more? I'm horribly insecure about being a generalist. Is that what you're talking about?
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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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It's a real problem, and some of the best people I know in this field are stuck languishing in low level support due to this.
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Like every other field: so many have spent so much $ and time on these gatekeeping methods & now have vested interest in freezing others out
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Being a generalist w/ a few areas of specialist-grade skills has served me well for nearly 25 yrs in tech. Adaptability to needs.
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Couldn't agree more with this thread. I don't code, but I understand how the thing you built will impact that other thing. Most devs don't.
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Whole modern world of interconnected things in the cloud. run by people who are not interconnected and choose not to. Causes much


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Thank you for such an insightful explanation. I feel I have a competitive advantage hiring generalists because they don't mess up stuff
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Sure we do. But we mess it up in much more comprehensive and extensible ways, often with better docs so you can adapt our mistakes broadly.
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I ran out of chars, and you have done a better job than I would at describing the details of it.
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can't tell you how many times I use to run into programmers that were incapable of performing the simplest tasks in IT
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This is the base of how
@elonmusk does so well at so many different fields. Old quote "Specialization is for ants."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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