The MultiSkill Engineer
System, Network, Development, Security,Voip…
Continuing my last reflexion about multi vendor engineer.. today i´m thinking about other kind .. the multi skill engineer, this kind of person who can hack a system, program a video game or a web page, and mantain servers, router, firewalls and everything you can plug, on a easy way.
They are a superheroes, but as all people know, even the superheroes have especialization, for example, the avengers, not all super people can fly, or be super strong, or have a great and healthy green skin, even them have to choose.
Another example, more graphical, you ask to batman for fly around the building during 3 hours, he make a gadget for it .. he can fly... only for a while..
Conclusion : Batman is dead.. You should have asked to superman for this task...
Based in my own experience, I have to confess that I´m not a multi skill engineer, is so hard to gain expertise in programming languages, networking, security, voip, all in the same time…. We all know the specialization as a good skill, but can we specialize in one discipline without abandon the others technical arts of our lifes?,this left us in a disadvantage in the work market? We should be a mix between Iron Man and all the other?
I don´t know what you think about this, but for me, is time to choose.
End of the thought