Saturday, November 28, 2020

Saturday Film Club: Being a generalist

 

An interesting video where Adam Savage, best known from TV's Mythbusters talks about never having specialised in a particular making genre - preferring to be a Jack of All Trades rather than a master of any particular one. 

This interests me as I'm very much a generalist and always have been. For my current job, this is pretty much essential. I need to be willing and able to have a go at any type of model making. OK, I'm not the best at anything, but then that's the situation most railway modellers find themselves in. You need a wide variety of skills to build a layout. 

Being a specialist is fine, but limiting. The hours of honing your technique doesn't appeal to me much either. I have a butterfly mind and like to try lots of different things. And since the appeal of a hobby is that you enjoy it, I need to go with what works for me. 

How about everyone else? 


4 comments:

Duncan Young said...

We have to be carpenters, artists, builders, model makers, researchers, electricians, electronics nerds, metalworkers and above all capable of laughing at ourselves and liking most of our efforts.

Steve said...

I thought I was a 'bodger' now I realise I'm a 'Generalist' :-)

Phil Parker said...

It's important on your CV Steve :-)

Steve said...

Good point! I'll do it now. Fame and fortune await....