2003-09-29 14:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineFuck the cookie cutter cover letter. . .
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In a world of hyper-nuanced specialists, isn't it nice to know you can find one person who's pretty good at a wide range of things, and, no matter what the task, can communicate quickly, clearly, and with the right attitude to whomever they're working with? In days gone by, the Jack of All Trades was a valued member of society - able to throw in with most any of the specialists to get a particular task done in a timely manner.
While this role isn't gone altogether, it's seldom a part of any Org Chart. Finding out that the copier repair guy dabbles in Photoshop, or the Administrative Assistant is a wizard when it comes to resurrecting a crashed workstation is the modern workplace's iteration.
I am that guy. Jack of All Trades, master of none that anyone pays a living wage for. ;-)
[thanks to
masque__ for the shove]In a world of hyper-nuanced specialists, isn't it nice to know you can find one person who's pretty good at a wide range of things, and, no matter what the task, can communicate quickly, clearly, and with the right attitude to whomever they're working with? In days gone by, the Jack of All Trades was a valued member of society - able to throw in with most any of the specialists to get a particular task done in a timely manner.
While this role isn't gone altogether, it's seldom a part of any Org Chart. Finding out that the copier repair guy dabbles in Photoshop, or the Administrative Assistant is a wizard when it comes to resurrecting a crashed workstation is the modern workplace's iteration.
I am that guy. Jack of All Trades, master of none that anyone pays a living wage for. ;-)
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I'm not sure I would advertise that though. You'll end up under paid and, as always, over worked by under appreciating fools.
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Thank you
Somewhere between duct repair guy, electrician, pc dork, card swapper, code writer, thermodynamic thingamawhatzit calibrator, and still trying to figure out enough VB to get that damn escel macro to work just so.
And of course there's the obligatory "Sorry dude, that's another contractor's responsiblity" when the buck can justifiably be passed.
Trid
-still among the living, though questionably