Malvolio meets the 21st Century

[cailin maith]

I think it must be his modesty that inhibits him.

I was just about to say the same thing.

Coming across as (thinking you!) know absolutly everything about everything and being an expert in the whole of the IT industry and therefore indicating that the client is actually a bit of a dunce probably won't help your case.

[Scary]

So why are you out of work?

Expecting the marketplace to change to fit the skills?

[sasguru]

Malvolio may well know it all, but IMHO, the market wants people who know one thing very well indeed.

[TimberWolf]

Malvolio may well know it all, but IMHO, the market wants people who know one thing very well indeed.

How to bulltulip?

[sasguru]

How to bulltulip?

Not anymore. The bull-tulipers are being left by the wayside just as happened in 2000 and 2003.

[malvolio]

Malvolio may well know it all, but IMHO, the market wants people who know one thing very well indeed.

Precisely. I'm too much of a generalist.

[bogeyman]

Precisely. I'm too much of a generalist.

But a very, very good generalist by all accounts (mostly your own).

[malvolio]

But a very, very good generalist by all accounts (mostly your own).

Didn't say that, actually. I've just been around a long time and seen lots of different environments and client sites. Mostly, they all seem to have the same problems though!

[bogeyman]

Didn't say that, actually. I've just been around a long time and seen lots of different environments and client sites. Mostly, they all seem to have the same problems though!

Yes, I've been around a long time too and I know that the most effective way to solve problems is to get a specialist in. All generalists can do is sigh and tut and drone on about how awful the problem is. You need specialists to actually sort things out.

Specialists are valuable, generalists are not - however long in the tooth they are.

[Moscow Mule]

Precisely. I'm too much of a generalist.

My mate has a few words on this...

There's no point in a project manager knowing how to fix the lowest level code the day after go live. The point of a project manager is to know he's going to need somebody to fix the lowest level code the day after go live.