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Are dilettantes always a bad thing? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 11 months ago by cheese_greater to c/[email protected]

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I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on the job. It is quite alright to be a generalist and have a broad understanding of everything. It allows you to connect different fields, come up with simple fixes for nearly everything and call for an expert if it's beyond your perspective. Apart from that there are jobs that don't require knowledge. Maybe instead strength, patience and dedication or empathy.

The dangerous part is if you don't know your limits. If you're a dilettante and then start opening the panel from the circuit breakers and mess with the wires, you will probably burn down your house.

So it depends. Always? No.

[–] cheese_greater 2 points 11 months ago

I hate when my breaker goes out aha. I'm very good about watching YouTube walkthrus until I get stuff like that where its dangerous, delicate , or both