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type: blog-post
title: It is okay to be a Generalist
description: 2023-09-08-it-is-okay-to-be-a-generalist
draft: true
date: 2023-09-09
updates:
  - time: 2023-09-09
    description: first iteration
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  - "#blog"
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I've had a nagging feeling brewing for a while, I myself am a generalist. Just
look at my [posts](https://blog.kasperhermansen.com/posts/), self promotion
aside, I have a lot a interests, and loose interest quickly. I look up to my
fellow engineers and envy their talent and work, but don't have the focus to
keep such a consistent focus.

I build a lot of random projects in all sorts of environments, web development,
backend engineering, development experience, platform engineering, now data
engineering, you name it. However, even if I can some problems in any of these
fields, and architect solutions built on them, I tend to loose interest quite
quickly, as such I have a whole bunch of half finished, somewhat useful
projects.

I've found that having a well rounded team is extremely useful, but that