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Hm. I don’t know. As a “generalist” myself, I find it sometimes hard to find a new job (as it’s hard to describe what exactly you did), but once I land a new j
by shp0ngle 4y ago
Hm. I don’t know.
As a “generalist” myself, I find it sometimes hard to find a new job (as it’s hard to describe what exactly you did), but once I land a new job, I somehow become a person that just can’t be fired, and bring a lot of value to the team.
However, what I CAN recommend for such people and what did help me is to move more into management. If you are a jack of all trades, you can also quite easily tell what will take what time, and how much are people bullshitting you. And learn some JIRA/scrum shibboleths on the way, and you become quite a good manager.
- mr_cheese_ 4y agoI can't second this enough. After 20 years as an excellent generalist I was getting bored as an IC. I struggled with finding interesting roles until I moved into management. All those good enough skills in a lot of areas, and the ability to connect things and people, really helps you shine. Plus, you get to fix all kinds of new problems.