Ever find yourself in situations where you are expected to be a fountain of knowledge about all subjects under the sun? It’s been happening to me more and more often. The good thing is that you? end up knowing a bit about everything.? The other day, after buying Epson RX640, I went off hunting for somewhere to buy CD Labels. Turns out I found a great site called Buskerdoo CD Labels that do a whole selection of CD lables, DVD insets, CD sleeves and a whole bunch of other CD/DVD related paraphenelia. The good thing is, I won’t need to search for them again, because now I know.
There are downsides of course. This morning I went to the gym, for instance; and instead of doing my nomal workout I ended up fixing their computer. It was relatively straighforward, putting some antispyware on their box, running Windows Update and a few other clean up tasks, but it meant that I ended up playing with computers instead of pumping iron.
Sometimes I feel a bit uncomfortable in not having as much depth of knowledge in certain areas as I would like. It’s nice to be a specialist sometimes, being the “go to” guy about a particular topic. Still, the bottom line is I like knowing a bit about everything. Generalists rock!
I would much rather be a specialist than a generalist. Although life is simpler for a generalist, it pays off in the end to know a lot about something.
Just curious how you find the print quality of the Epson RX640. I have an older version of the printer and was looking to upgrade it.
You are going to have to join another gym and not let them know that you know about computers!
@Karen: Yeay, the printer is just brilliant. Print quality is superb and the photos it produces are just astounding. Would recommend it to anyone!
Is their a hybrid – between generalists and specialists. I guess it’s relative, depending on the individual?
In Lord Byron’s Don Juan, we see Don Juan’s mother as this sort of intellectual surface individual. She is described as knowing a little bit about a lot of things, but very nothing of depth about anything.
I knwo this is not exactly true of me, but I often FEEL this way. I have so much going on inside my head.