Jack of all trades, master of.....

I've been thinking lately about all the things I am really good at doing. Good? Great? Awesome? Somewhat? These are all really relevant when you try to consider your skill/aptitude level of core competencies, right? Do we really have a huge capacity for understanding a large amount of competencies and become completely adaptable within a range of those competencies? I say, with a very strong, resounding, YES! I believe that we do have that capability, we just need to evaluate our core skill sets (competencies) and branch out from there. This is something that you do when you put together your resume, right? You look for all your core strengths and then work your way down (if you don't have enough of those) to those skills you know, but don't do nearly as awesome, but still want to recognize as a competency, regardless of the level. I've decided that I want to put together a portfolio of the things that make me awesome; the things that make me superb; the things that make me great; the things that interest me, but I'm only "good" at doing and this way I can decide and focus my energies where they really need/or want to be! Do I really want to get better at doing something I know, but am not an expert at doing? Hmmm...a very good question! Or do I want to pursue something I am awesome at doing and branch out into things that are tremendously inspiring and/or wetting my appetite to learn more!

So, now I've put together a list of things that roughly fit into those areas, where do I go from here? I'm starting to wonder if I am a Jack of all trades, master of who knows what!?! OK, I am really kidding because I know technology and more technology is the life blood of my life, but what it comes down to is technology is a broad spectrum and where is it that I really fit in? What I do is a myriad of things within the back-end of the technology structure, I've carved a place for myself doing all the administrative management of items that all the uber-techies don't want to do and because of that, I've become an expert in ad-hoc administration, management and learning anything necessary to make things work! I believe that is one of my strengths, I can become a chameleon and put on a hat and run with it, and excel. That is a great thing to be able to do, especially when you have your own day to day operations to run and need to make sure you are constantly learning. Sometimes I feel that if I don't learn 200 new things a day, I've had a really slow day! And sometimes, I wish there was an off switch for my brain.

So what are you a Jack or master of in your life and have you ever thought of what comes next?

Thanks for listening...