What are the typical skills of a "Jack of all Trades"? Do they have limits?
The typical traites of a "Jack of all trades" person is that they poses a wide breadth of knowledge and ability but very little depth. An example would be someone who knows a little bit of several programming languages but not enough of any one language to build a complete application. The obvious limit is an inability to excel in a career that demands deep understanding in one or more skills. I found this to be true with working in IT technical support. Since we had to support all of the company products most of us knew a little bit of all of our products. If we needed in depth information we had to refer to the programming team for the specific application we needed assistance with.
Interesting question J.S.Matthew. There is a saying I've heard that goes, "jack of all trades, master of none." As Lucidwarrior says, a jack of all trades is someone who should have a wide breadth of knowledge and ability. A good place where you can find jack of all trades is in the world of diplomacy.
While diplomats will tend to have a particular area of specialization, the demands of the career also require them to at least be a jack of all trades. Especially for countries with limited resources, their diplomatic missions overseas in some places will have a limited staff complement. This sometimes means that an officer and/or staff in an Embassy sometimes find themselves dealing with issues involving economic matters, political/security issues, cultural affairs, etc. As for limits, well this is good only to the point where they can initiate an understanding or commitment to cooperate or work on a particular area of interest. When it comes to working out the technical details, the entry of specialists and technical experts are usually required and brought into the process.
I am an RN who spent the majority of my 30+ years in Pediatrics,15 of those years in Neonatal Intensive Care. Now I am a Home Health Nurse who cares for patients whose age group spans infancy to Geriatrics. As you can imagine the medical issues are of a wide variety. My knowledge base has increased tremendously and I really enjoy what I am doing but even though I have been out in the field for 15 years I feel like a "Jack of all Trades" because I am no longer specializing in Pediatrics.
The typical skills of a "Jack of all Trades" is the ability to be curious, a fast learner and a keen attitude to learning which is what makes him able to learn many trades but he does have a limit and that is that he is no master of any trade.
by Al Wordlaw 8 years ago
Is it better to be a Jack or Jill of all trades, Jack or Jill of a few trades or a Master of One?Feel free to tell what you are. If you are Master of one then do or did you desire to be more than the one? Finally, What do you think in general?
by India Arnold 12 years ago
Experienced Jack-of-all-trades (vs) book educated: Who would you hire?
by Latcarf 12 years ago
which is better? Being a jack of all trades, or a master of one?Learning is my passion. I want to know about almost everything that I across in my life. If I learned some basics about anything, then the next moment I would turn to another topic, without ever trying to put this knowledge...
by Mr. Happy 11 years ago
Do we have to know extremes to know balance?I often enjoy pushing limits and seeing where the extemes of things are. And just now, I came to think whether we can even know balance without first determinging where the extremes are (in general)? Just a thought - opinions are appreciated.All the best!
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |