Hello
I was wondering how many of you are specilist and how many are generalist and what you think are the pros and cons of both
Ill start
Im a generalist
Pros:
1-When you go to a network with a problem and they tell you hey since you install that firewall my internet its slow, yes it wasnt the firewall but i was able to demostrate it was something with their dns server forwarder pointing to a random ip that didnt exist(true history)
What i mean its easy to troubleshoot and find the problem when the problem is not the equipment you installed.
2-Its easy to find a job elsewhere or if for some reason let say for example servers is not paying that good anymore you can switch to full networking and there is no issue
Cons:
1-You have to study a way more
2-You need to have a big library of notes of how to do stuff at least i do have it cause you dont do it too often then you forget some steps and also to troubleshoot you dont even remenber all the commands to troubleshoot or you know there is acommand that does something but you dont remenber which is it cause you dont use it rarely and stuff like that.
For my luck in our company we have a really complete laboratory so i can test the installations or configs, or simulates situations before going to the client letting me create a checklist. Maybe i woudlnt need this being a specialist as i do it all the time and i just have everything in my memory
I have to tell that in some countries being specialist doesn't work that well like in mine... for example in my country will be harder to find a job as a specialist well at least thats what i see on the newspapers or jobs advertisment, they want you to know everything
