Heard this quote a long time back during my school days and now realizing the true meaning of it.
"Jack of all trades, Master of none !"
This quote is so true !
All you need is to be only Jack, not the Master. (I believe, people know the hierarchy of card games.. :-P )
If you try to become Master, it will require consistent hard work. And, for Jack, COMPARATIVELY, less hard work. Don't forget the work comparatively, because to become Jack also, you need to work hard.
The positive thing with becoming Jack of all trades, is that your knowledge will not be limited to a particular scope. You'd have a considerable amount of knowledge and there is always a room for growth. Whereas, becoming Master has a limited scope. There will be a point of saturation of your area and ultimately you have to switch to other areas.
For instance, being in IT industry, being a Master of one technology is not advisable. The reason behind is that technology today is rapidly advancing and changing. The time you will take to master the booming technology, in that time another technology will be in trends and the former one would have become outdated. You'd have less area of scope also and switching would not be that easy after becoming master.
Though, there is always an exception to everything. Master can evolve new technologies and create history.
You'd get to know if that's possible in the process. :-D
Otherwise, what I feel, as per the quote become Jack of some, not all, technologies. This will give you more chances and scopes and well, you can always go deep in the one, you choose to work.
Its really wonderful to see how a single thing can be generalized to so many things and in different times, too..
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