Frank Wear triggered this question
I understand this as an advice question. Be yourself. If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades.
I also understand your question differently than what you asked. If you are a jack of all trades, there are many jobs that are available to you. You want to be a part of something. You want to be of service. I get it. If you offer yourself as a jack of all trades, you miss out on the focus of resolving a specific problem, of being able to delve deeply into a problem of specialization. The problem isn't "What should you do?" It is "What do you want to do?" "Who are you, really?"
What is your passion? Money? Environment? Children? Technology? Machinery? Helping? Power? Competition?
I suspect you ask this question because you want to contribute and haven't found the right match. I'd like to offer this. Find a job you want and concentrate on getting it. People who hire are looking for a reason to rule someone out. It's easy to find. Finding a person who specializes in exactly what they want is easy with the Internet. But if my experience is like most other people in the position to hire, most of the people they find who claim to have in-depth knowledge in the field don't. What they are missing is that an Internet search for words doesn't get the person who will work their heart out to get the job done. That is you. So, find the job you want and concentrate on it. Find someone to talk to and talk to them. Put a lot of attention into getting a job from a few places rather than a little attention over a bunch of jobs. In the same way that you browse a million jobs and rule out most, they browse a million applications and don't read the answers to the 50-question survey and resume for most applicants. In looking for a job, you are trying to get around the mental barriers that people erect to protect themselves from overload. Once the dam has a hole, keep working it. You will never make a hole without concentrating on the job you want.
I hope this advice helps.
My Reply
Frank Wear said that "I understand this as an advice question. Be yourself. If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades."
To make it clear, your interpretation of the question is not accurate.
Here is the question: "Should you be yourself in seeking a job or be the Jack of all trades"?
(1) To be yourself only (when anyone applies for the job, understand the functional and non-functional requirements ("The What") and ultimate design ("The How-to") of the Employment or the job, or
(2) To be the jack of all trades (you do not know the functional and nonfictional requirements ("The What") and most likely do not know the ultimate design ("The How-to"). We are suffering all over the world because the jacks of all trades are "Masters of none." they prevent qualified individuals from having jobs, and they are usually very destructive.
(3) Not both.
Frank Wear started with a wrong assumption (self-interpretation of the question) by saying, "If yourself is a jack of all trades, be a jack of all trades."
Employment is a concern to all of us, and I am writing a book on Employment (as an enduring concept that is a goal of itself for every human on earth because we believe all that is written on the idea of Employment has nothing to do with existing massive writing that is related to Employment.
Are you kidding me? No.
We discovered more than 50 innovative keys per concept and more than 100 new pieces of facts about the concept of "Employment" no one knows. Where our concept classification is three types:
(1) Enduring Business Themes (EBTs)
(2) Business Objects (BOs), and
(3) Industrial Objects (IOs).
We call the new field of knowledge "Unified Concept Engineering (UCE)."
We must think of the following:
(1) The concept, such as "Employment" as "Unified Employment," where any concept will fit all the scenarios of employment scenarios.
(2) The concept of "Emolument" is a human right for everyone, including "The Jacks of all trades."
(3) Denial of jobs for qualified most of the time is related to insecurity, selfishness, and discrimination, such as Agism and high salaries.
(4) The funny thing is that the interviewer indicates "Overqualified," and the advice to the employers is "By making sure you don't say that they are overqualified - because you could get hit with a possible age discrimination lawsuit. Being overqualified is unfortunately not considered an Objective reason to disqualify a candidate."
Quotes About "The Jack of All Trades"
"Geniuses founded our country, but idiots are running it." John Kennedy
"Actors become jacks of all trades and masters of none."
Josh Lucas
"The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise except airports and exotic foods."
Timothy Radcliffe.
In fact, I always teach the functional and non-functional concepts of "Employment" at the beginning of all my classes, and later, I teach them the design of it.
We will illustrate most of the innovative keys of "Employment" in two volumes of books soon.
Next Question 05-4
What is your passion? Money? Environment? Children? Technology? Machinery? Helping? Power? Competition? In Question 05-4 will be reply to my next reply.
This discussion is based on the following TED video.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fayads-innovations-23-003011-4-should-we-start-using-role-m-e-fayad
Rana Hamza Shakil
First:
Thank you very much, and I appreciate your recommendations.
Second:
We presented your excellent and must-do recommendations in several innovations. We will show what they are and how to utilize them in our research and development of Autonomous Vehicle Software (AVS), and you will see your new recommendations will be achieved.
(1) Fayad’s Software Stability Model
(2) Fayad’s Art of Abstraction
(3) We must consider Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) as Unified Domain Knowledge Engineering (UDKE): Ten innovative need attention:
a) AVS Stable Analysis Patterns (AVS-SAPs)
b) AVS Stable Design Patterns (AVS-SDPs)
c) AVS Unified Software/System Architecture on-Demand (AVS-USA on-Demand)
d) AVS Knowledge Map for Unified Doman Analysis (KM-UDA)
e) AVS Unified Functional Requirements
f) AVS Non-Functional Requirements:
· 15+ Engineered Quality Factors
· Control the Functional Requirements
· Executable
· Evaluation & Assessment
· Descriptive Adequacies
· Relevance
· Branding
· Enduring
· Stable
· Positive energy
g) AVS Unified Ultimate Design
h) AVS Standard
i) AVS Fayad’s Unified Software Engines (AVS-FUSEs)
j) AVS Applicability
(4) Unified Software Engineering
(5) Many Areas of research and development to establish unification and stability.
Dear Mohamed Fayad you wrote,
"Frank Wear started with a wrong assumption..."
By reading carefully your questions in RG in recent months, I can say you also have wrong assumptions, but pretty bigger than Frank Wear.
Believe it or not by just several of your recent questions you have asked here in RG, it is very easy to write a several hundred pages book about problematic issues, inconsistencies in scientific research and publications.
PS: Also, if you have a look at your Introduction and also skills and experiences and other things all available in your GR page, you understand better, why most of your questions have not received any answers and/or reads.
To: Rahim Alijani
First, I don't use assumptions in my engineering, research, and development work; I teach my students not to assume.
Second: You are in title to your opinion, and it does not bother me.
Third: Your reply has nothing to do with the question.
Fourth: Thank you for evaluating my skills, experience, and other things on RG. It is very kind of you. But if you don't think you disapprove of my skills and experiences, why do you bother?
Dear Mohamed Fayad
First, good for you, as you used to not answer or answer a comment after some one month!
Second, I do not bother you or others, better to learn that this is a science platform. You certainly know we have peer review, a part of which is post peer review and again a part of the latter is called "answer to critics" or "Reply to my critics"
Please see these as examples
An Answer to My Critics, or the Confessions of an Unrepentant Interdisciplinarian, Laurie Manchester, 10.1353/imp.2012.0069
or this one in RG
Article A Reply to My Critics
Search RG or Google scholar and enjoy tens of thousands of "answers to my critics"
Third, You have confused here with old school classes, that teachers and professors used to say any things and students could not ask or challenge the professor. No here is not a class and people here are "peers" but not the kind of people or students you have in your mind or you like them to be.
Fourth, I did not evaluate your RG skills, I wanted to tell you, by theses questions you ask, you yourself is a Jack of all trades
Did not you ALSO say?
I don't use assumptions in my engineering, research, and development work; I teach my students not to assume.
You work in engineering?, show us the books and articles that have the same theme, topic and coverage like what you ask here as questions!
Fayad, science is not what you think now, we are not in the age of Natural Philosophy, now we have so many branches of sciences, and fields of studies. Just look at how many branches are there under psychology, engineering and others, who can work and research in all of them?
Also it seems that you need to learn more about the scholarly and academic differences of occupation and profession and then ask your questions here in RG or any other science platforms.
to be short, Adam Smith in his book "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, solved your problems regarding Jack of all trades. Please read the book and specially the chapter regarding "division of labor" (also known as job specialization)
While in sciences and the world of academia, it would be better to use Polymath. Anyway, which ever "jack of all trades" or Polymath, these are outdated and have no place in today's world.
Please be open, and avoid anger. Learn or if you are an expert, answer your critics, scientifically, logically, patiently and fortify them all with reliable references but not with your Assumptions and imaginations.
Thank you.
Rahim Alijani,
Thank you for your reply and Critic.
Good luck,
M. Fayad
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Physical Sciences
- Waves