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When I was younger I used to say that I was a jack of all trades, master of none. Many years later I feel like a jack of all trades, master of many. I no longer
by annoyingnoob 6y ago
When I was younger I used to say that I was a jack of all trades, master of none. Many years later I feel like a jack of all trades, master of many. I no longer fit any of the profiles presented here.
- ellisv 6y agoI feel very funnel/inverse-triangle shaped.
- throwaway856437 6y agoThat's called being old. Generally considered out of date, unable to learn new stuff :-)
- annoyingnoob 6y agoYet, always held a job, so far never part of a layoff, still pulling my weight. If you are not constantly learning then you are falling behind. The biggest differences from my younger days are more distractions in my personal life (family), and I make better decisions than I once did.
- jmchuster 6y agoIt depends, if your "master of many" list is all old technologies, or all new technologies.
- throwaway856437 6y agoHow about the newest version of an old technology
- jmchuster 6y agoI mean, all that really matters is if your list of technologies matches up with what the company currently uses and what they would aspirationally like to use in the future.
- rzzzt 6y agoWide and tall - a rectangle.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoNot equally tall across the width.
- digikata 6y agoI too have a broken comb profile. Every now an then I get to have some fun and add or extend a few teeth. But for the most part the skills let me work through most tangles pretty well.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoIts interesting that a history of doing hard things is less important than it once was at interview time. You still have to prove that you can do hard things.
- digikata 6y agoI feel like 20 min coding exercises of today are nearly completely inadequate tools for proving if a candidate can do hard things.
- satyrnein 6y agoThe problem is, while I love my story of figuring out xmlhttprequest (before it was called ajax) in IE5 so I could rebuild our refresher frame to not refresh anymore because Windows had unexpectedly introduced a clicking sound for every page navigation and our application was now clicking every second driving our customers crazy, that situation will never come up again. Every day, the specifics of tech experience matter less, and they reduce to "merely" signals of creativity, tenacity, etc.
- smichel17 6y agoAah, I was looking for a word to describe this shape! It's also what I consider myself. It's basically the result of being a generalist who is also willing to dive deep in order to solve a problem rather than stackoverflow my way to a workaround. "Key-shaped" might be another word here, for someone who does have an area of focus, but not as extreme as a T shape. For example, someone who does full stack web dev with a frontend specialty, but not so focused on one particular frontend framework.
- digikata 6y ago
- falcolas 6y agoI’ve heard it called “paint drip” since you have a broad scope, with a lot of various length depth lines.
- akvadrako 6y agoPerhaps this is because many problems are fundamentally the same. Understand the requirements, research the tools, combine the tools in a clean architecture, ... And the more tools you have used the quicker you can figure out new ones, at least for what you need.