Topic: specialty or "Jack of all trade? - page 2. (Read 246 times)
I think that you can be a specialist and have that rare skill and have also knowledge about other skills for being a jack of all trades. Quite confusing but if you're mastering a certain skill, that won't stop you from learning more as it's a continuous process for you to have more skills when you're done with the other. Career wise, you can stay and be a specialist but once you're already there and stable, you can now learn other skills and be a jack of all trades.
jack of all trades master of none but often time better than master of one i've seen such words often nowadays, sometime it holds truth.
nowadays special skills in just one certain area isn't really enough, i've seen many that tries to master various sector of knowledges through retaking degree.
like for example if you are a scientist working on your own company you might strive to get law degree just for the sake of having knowledge.
therefore i think its better if aside from mastering one specialty you can strive for other knowledge maybe not really into advanced level but just general common sense.
knowing laws where you have specialty in other degree might come in handy someday.
nowadays special skills in just one certain area isn't really enough, i've seen many that tries to master various sector of knowledges through retaking degree.
like for example if you are a scientist working on your own company you might strive to get law degree just for the sake of having knowledge.
therefore i think its better if aside from mastering one specialty you can strive for other knowledge maybe not really into advanced level but just general common sense.
knowing laws where you have specialty in other degree might come in handy someday.
Being a professional doesn't mean you are only secluded to that part of profession. A professional also will have other areas of passion that they like and can do well in them because like you said people are not having single source of income to survive in the present inflated economy. The difference may be that the person may be earning quite more from his professional work more than he earns from the second skill. Doctors have other source of income, like some are also crypto enthusiast and investors, same thing applies to the other professional fields you mentioned, they have other sources of income and it doesn't make them jack of all trade and masters of none 
You don't survive just by having one source of income, a doctor for example again can be a surgeon while he has an drug store where drugs are sold. He could also own stores where medical equipments are sold and that gives him more income. So these days people do different skills combined together and no one is lagging behind.
You don't survive just by having one source of income, a doctor for example again can be a surgeon while he has an drug store where drugs are sold. He could also own stores where medical equipments are sold and that gives him more income. So these days people do different skills combined together and no one is lagging behind.
What's your view on this? Is it best to be a specialist in a chosen field or tilt to being the jack of all trades?
I'd always choose a specialty. To me, it's better to be the best in one field than be average in multiple other fields. If it would be possible to be the best in the other fields then fine, but that is highly unlikely. To be among the best requires a lot of diligence and time, it's not something that can be attained if you do it part-time.
Focusing on a particular field doesn't mean you will necessarily have one source of income. There are many other things to do that don't require you to be in that field to excel in them. Some people work 2,3 jobs, others have businesses. Some have investments and shares.
Also having a side skill that gives you money is another way to have another stream of income.
Also, having a skill or two aside from your normal day job doesn't make you a jack of all trades. It's just diversification. It's a way for you to earn more money and looking at the current state of the world economy, different sources of income are not a bad idea. Jack of all trades is someone who wants to do almost everything. He's neither here nor there, he's just everywhere.
No doubt, being the jack of all trades has a lot of advantages, especially in today's world where a single skill and source of income is always not enough to Carter for your needs, and coping well in a field would in most instances require that you combine a lot of other skills for effective productivity but then, being a specialist or someone that's dedicated to a chosen field could make you exceptionally experienced than combining a whole lot of similar skill on your head.
I guess this is the reason why in most professional fields like medicine, engineering, finance, and even in the legal fields, it's expected that there is a combination of some sort of general knowledge or focus on a niche where one will be called upon to handle matters in that context.
What's your view on this? Is it best to be a specialist in a chosen field or tilt to being the jack of all trades?
I guess this is the reason why in most professional fields like medicine, engineering, finance, and even in the legal fields, it's expected that there is a combination of some sort of general knowledge or focus on a niche where one will be called upon to handle matters in that context.
What's your view on this? Is it best to be a specialist in a chosen field or tilt to being the jack of all trades?
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