Specialist or Jack of all trades?

ArtyM

Which are you?
Are you a specialist who is particularly skilled in one very specific thing
Or
Are you capable in multiple disciplines, and able to turn your hand to a variety of things?
I think the more versatile you are in the current climate, the more options/choices you have - but the specialist will usually command the higher fee.

I, personally, am more of the latter. I am kept busy, can turn my hand to most things within my field - quite well too in most cases.

Palytoxin

Jack of all trades, able to deal with most things, and have no special talents at all.

supernova84

I can bite my toenails

christmas2012

cast your net wide when it comes to jobs,you could be four years in college and get your degree,in the meantime the jobs are gone,and four years can change a lot in the jobs market..
i got out with my diploma and got work experience first,you can always do top up on your degree(which i did through distance learning),and i did a top up on my degree with an fetac level 5 cert.
whatever you do dont stick yourself in college when the jobs could be passing you by..

Carbon Bootprint

Jack of all trades, master of none.








At least I'm honest about it.

Pottler

My entire business is being a jack of all trades. I am a one call stop for large companies, anything from a blocked toilet to the roof blew off to we need a new Forklift. To meet that, I hire people who are not jack of all trades but are experts at what they do. I am an umberella jack of all trades but it is the expert people who ensure I come out looking good, so horses for courses.

racso1975

I have a particular set of skills that makes me a nightmare for people like you

Pottler

racso1975 wrote: »

I have a particular set of skills that makes me a nightmare for people like you

You're a feckin clamper, aren't you.

Carbon Bootprint

Pottler wrote: »

You're a feckin clamper, aren't you.

Where is the "applause" emoticon when you need it? :pac:

Pushtrak

I'm highly skilled at being unskilled.

af_thefragile

I wish I could be a specialist at something.

But I kinda suck at everything...

Pottler

Carbon Bootprint wrote: »

Where is the "applause" emoticon when you need it? :pac:

it's right there, shaped like a hand:D

Pottler

af_thefragile wrote: »

I wish I could be a specialist at something.

But I kinda suck at everything...

Don't despair, the sex industry is crying out for skills like that. I hear the pay is pretty good as well.

af_thefragile

Pottler wrote: »

Don't despair, the sex industry is crying out for skills like that. I hear the pay is pretty good as well.

I'll probably suck at that too.....................................................

starbelgrade

af_thefragile wrote: »

I'll probably suck at that too.....................................................

Sucking in the sex industry is a plus.

Mr Benevolent

Jack off all trades.

entropi

<-<-<-<-<- The username says it all :pac:

B.A._Baracus

I'm handy in alot of different fields. But its not like I could go out and get a job in any of them.

Experience i've gained versus experience on paper


... but still. can always do a few nixers? :pac:

cocoshovel

Im one of those people with no specialist skills, and then just shíte at everything esle I do

Carbon Bootprint

cocoshovel wrote: »

Im one of those people with no specialist skills, and then just shíte at everything esle I do

You sound like me. I start off slow, and then fizzle out altogether.

Schwiiing

I'm just a completely useless bollox. I'm a waste of natural resources (oxygen and the like). It's a wonder I haven't been shot for the good of humanity.

Capt'n Midnight

"Jack of all trades, master of none,
Oftimes better than a master of one"
:cool:

LETHAL LADY

I am proficient at many things but my forte so to speak is finance.

gammygils

I'm a Jack Of No Trades and a Master Of None!!

Senna

My job is "so what catastrophe have we got today" and the answer could be anything from "its raining inside" (last week), to "i think he had a heart-attack" (also last week).

Keith186

Jack of hearts spades and clubs but I know nothing about diamonds.

af_thefragile

Schwiiing wrote: »

I'm just a completely useless bollox. I'm a waste of natural resources (oxygen and the like). It's a wonder I haven't been shot for the good of humanity.

Don't worry, when you die, your body will make good food for all the worms and bacteria which in turn will enrich and fertilize the soil and then maybe million years from now you will turn into oil which some future generation rednecks can use to do burnouts in their hillbilly V8 trucks...

Supermensch

Jack of all trades, though would rather I was a specialist.

Turpentine

af_thefragile wrote: »

Don't worry, when you die, your body will make good food for all the worms and bacteria which in turn will enrich and fertilize the soil and then maybe million years from now you will turn into oil which some future generation rednecks can use to do burnouts in their hillbilly V8 trucks...

All trades so?

DEFTLEFTHAND

If your serious in life you'll focus your ability on where you're talent lies. Don't settle for a job you hate.

af_thefragile

Turpentine wrote: »

All trades so?

It giveth and it taketh!

B.A._Baracus

Being honest,
I'm suprised more people aint doing nixers in this thread :pac: As people have general skills here or there.


Sure www.adverts.ie / services section is full of them

BUBBLE WRAP

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Being honest,
I'm suprised more people aint doing nixers in this thread :pac: As people have general skills here or there.


Sure www.adverts.ie / services section is full of them

I pitty da fool!

Oranage2

Might specialty is to be able to do things slightly better than the worst person.

starlit

A mixture of both.