You can have Multiple Interests

Just don't Multitask

I love to doing a lot of things. I’m interested in a variety of subjects and hobbies. Corporations don’t like you to be interested in multiple things, they want you to specialize in as little things as possible. Specialization is needed because it puts you in a very predictably measured box. Generalists don’t do very well in Corporate Positions with sure titles. Can we do everything listed on their Job Description, yes. Do we have 20 years experience doing the exact thing on that Job description? Probably Not. We learned it in a Year, and that’s still entry level for some people.

When you have multiple interests, it’s important to position yourself as an expert in something. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s related to something useful in your career. You put on this “mask” of specializing, when you really just want time to learn other things while being paid for your specialization. Once you have the job, you will excel at it, or it’ll make you want to quit, there is hardly and in between type feeling.

So make sure you look like you can do one thing really well at a time, and save the extra interests for you’re personal time. Eventually all those extra hobbies will come in handy when you want to branch out on your own and when Ai will get so good you can build wonderful things behind the scenes of your current job.

Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth
JZ#567