Ask HN: Do you regret being a generalist?
Pro tip: you&#x27;re not a generalist. A big chunk of specializing is how you package&#x2F;market yourself.<p>I consider myself a &quot;full stack employee&quot;. I&#x27;ve done backend, frontend, hosted live events, some sales, marketing, a dash of HR, pretty much everything.<p>Do I write that on my LinkedIn? Heck no. A year or so ago I looked at all the experience I had, saw I had a through-line story of how I&#x27;ve worked on video projects over the past 7ish years, and decided &quot;I&#x27;m the frontend WebRTC guy.&quot; I identified the spots of knowledge I needed to read up on to be confident (just a few gaps here and there) interviewed at a job, and within 10 minutes into the interview my future (now current) boss said &quot;You&#x27;re the perfect fit!&quot;. Because I was. I&#x27;m the frontend WebRTC guy with some sales&#x2F;marketing experience, and they needed a frontend WebRTC guy with some sales&#x2F;marketing experience.<p>Before that, I was the Frontend DevOps guy. Before that, I was the Backbone.js guy. And before that, I was the Sharepoint guy (shhhhh don&#x27;t tell anyone!)<p>If you&#x27;re interested in AI, just go poke around and find something in AI. Don&#x27;t sweat it. We all got plenty of time, and like you said, as long as we can center divs and set up click tracking on a Wordpress site we&#x27;ll always be able to put food on the table! :)