WTF is an "Eight of all trades"? Is that like a "Jack of all trades", but with a much lower value? Someone who hopes that one day they may rise to the dizzy heights of a "Nine of all trades"?
I don't think I've ever met someone who is a genuine generalist. I mean, my workload is pretty damn general - a typical day might involve Solaris, HPUX, Cisco stuff, running some ethernet cable, fighting with a Cyclades, soldering up some serial leads, dealing with storage arrays and then fixing an Alphaserver. That's pretty general. However, dealing with clustering/HA is niche enough it leaves me the "cluster specialist".
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I don't think I've ever met someone who is a genuine generalist. I mean, my workload is pretty damn general - a typical day might involve Solaris, HPUX, Cisco stuff, running some ethernet cable, fighting with a Cyclades, soldering up some serial leads, dealing with storage arrays and then fixing an Alphaserver. That's pretty general. However, dealing with clustering/HA is niche enough it leaves me the "cluster specialist".