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| blog-post | It is okay to be a Generalist | 2023-09-08-it-is-okay-to-be-a-generalist | true | 2023-09-09 |
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I've had a nagging feeling brewing for a while, I myself am a generalist. Just look at my 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