Just doin stuff
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I like that, some YouTube video i came across had the sentiment that it was ok to be a renaissance man, jack of all trades kinda deal. I liked that a lot since i have a few different hobbies and im not particularly great at any of them but im good for the most part.
Made me feel like i didn't have to be perfect and it was cool to just be dong stuff.
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I want to do a lot of things, and I don't care if I am bad at them.
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Astronaut be like
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Same. I have one or two things I'm really good at. And a lot of things I'm pretty ok at. In my field, theatre, being ok in a lot of things means I can fit into almost any space. Don't make me your department head, but I can help pretty much every department except costumes. I used to think not being "master" level at these things made me a waste in space. Took me a while to realize "not as skillful" didn't mean "skill-less." I'd still rather be on stage but, I'm enjoying where I am for now.
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You can focus on 3 or 4 things and be expert at all of them if you uninstall all your mobile games.
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Wait?! Do I have to choae bwtween crochet, 3d printing, painting, woodworking and baking/cooking?!! But I love doing all this stuff! What am I going to do with the thousands of dolars in tools, Yarn, filament, Resin and paints?!!!
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I like this, it is deep without trying too hard.
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I do this too often lol, but I'm going to leave Range by David Epstein here as a decent read on the subject.
He partly frames it as a direct criticism of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, but Gladwell goes pretty overboard on what the research says. (For the actual science, Peak is your alternative. K Anders Ericsson was involved with the actual research and doesn't take liberties and wildly over-generalize what it says.)
Anyways, the highly specialized and the broad knowledge base viewpoints aren't incompatible. Both have value.
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Not enough time and money for all of my hobbies and interests. Gotta come up with a way to earn money but not have to work.
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Okay this is actually what makes humans amazing. Btw the malört and Marx is talking now.
I feel like we are sold this idea to be purely a specialist because... It's easy to know that your tool does one thing and one thing well. It really is a mindset that benefits a capitalist that a worker is good for one thing. How many jobs have you been in that you felt never utilized your potential? That you had so many skills that weren't being utilized?
Marx characterized humans as being creative and diverse. We are amazing Swiss army knives, but so often our companies ask us to only be a screwdriver or a bottle opener.
Sadly if you are reading this thinking "I'm only good at one thing" it's not true and it's not your fault. You've been sold an idea that you bought into, and it may have even been beneficial financially. How many people are making $350k to turn a button blue and move it left 3 pixels? Our system rewards people when they are able to be tools for a specific purpose.
Oddly enough Marx predicted that the country most likely to be communist would be the United States. He actually really liked Americans, we were farmers in the morning, artists in the evening, and philosophers at night. We had overthrown the aristocracy, so it just made sense we would be the first to overthrow the Bourgeois class.
Turns out Marx couldn't predict everything
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Hobbies are one thing, you don't need to be good at them to enjoy them, but being incredibly good at one specific thing tends to pay far better than mediocre at a lot of things.
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If I had all those skills, I would also try to climb up and look at butt mountain.
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I'm in this picture and I'm loving it
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Yes, it's important to skill stack in order to remain competi.... Hey where are you going! No you're not allow up there to live your own life and develop as you please! Get back down here to compete against others just like you!
....and whatever you do, don't form collective sympathies for each other, against your economic "betters".
That would risk a general strike.
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It's not all it's cracked up to be.
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Have hobbies. Seriously, that's it. Stink at playing guitar or learning a foreign language like I do, but do it anyway.
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Jack of all trades, master of none, yet better than the master of one
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A jack of all trades
and master of none,
is often more useful
than a master of one.A lot of people forget the second half of this old aphorism.
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Me, too.
However I am finding it hard to get a job. I got laid off in September. Employers want a square peg for a square hole. "Cisco engineer", for example. I know enough to get around Cisco, Fortigate and a few others. And project management. And servers. And a dozen other technologies. With 20+ years experience. But I don't find anyone paying enough for someone with a diverse skill set.
