Comments on: Jack of All Trades, Master of One

By: Tip for Success: Be a Master at Something | Freelance and Blogger Jobs World

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:08:59 +0000

[...] I’ve applied this same basic premise to my own personal career. The idea is this: if you differentiate yourself in just one key area, you make yourself that much more marketable in every area of your job segment. (This concept was discussed to some extent in this MarketingProfs blog.) [...]

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Do I Understand My Trades? « — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:57:29 +0000

[...] this phrase that we kept hearing to become Jack of all trades and master of one. I found a good material and realized that to be Jack of all trades is also not easy to become Master of one. We need to do [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:56:23 +0000

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I Who Know Everything « Anin Scratch Pad — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:52:15 +0000

[...] a phrase that say to become Jack of all trades and master of one. I read this and much agreed that to be Jack of all trades is not easy to become Master of one. But let’s [...]

By: Elaine Fogel

Elaine Fogel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:02:13 +0000

Patrick, your experience in the nonprofit sector is so typical. In my experience, staff in any given department often do many other things out of necessity. The value of being your own boss is picking and choosing what specialty area YOU want to focus on. Good luck!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:08:35 +0000

I started out in one of those jobs that requires one to be a jack of all trades and in my last long term full-time job I was a bit of jack of all trades too. I was known as the “computer guy” in the office but I did everything from managing the organizations web site, donor database, compiling stats, etc.
Now I’m self employed and the computer once again put me in the mind of others as a a jack of all trades just because I can use a computer. The work my business does is for web, print and portable media but I still get asked constantly if I can trouble shoot a network or fix and computer. Truth be told I “can” do those thing. I’m certified to do them but my areas of expertise revolve around media concerns like photography and graphic design. The other person in my company, my wife is more of the coder/programmer type.
It’s gotten to the point that I have to play dumb in regards to those areas that are not my specialty.