[alok-g]

I can connect well with you on that, being a generalist (+ specialist) myself. I have breadth, and depth in many areas (so would be more like a sparse comb than a T-shape that snowwrestler described). People who have worked with me, coming from different fields of expertise, have seen me as an expert in their respective field often without realizing that I am doing the same in many fields.

Yet, I suffer somewhat because those who do not know me are unable to see the specific area of expertise in my CV, which is filled with a much wider set than what they need or even follow.

I end up becoming the go-to person for those who know me and need help with multidisciplinary research projects or system architecture, solving problems that not well-defined, etc. Such jobs are not common though, and are also hard to get to unless people know you ahead of time.

So my advice to you would also be along the lines of what mchannon and others have written. Develop and area of expertise that you think is and will be in demand over the next several years. Then keep evolving.

[inertialforce]

Thank you for that candid response. Once you get over the barrier of being in a network it seems like you get to work on some really interesting and challenging problems. I don't understand why there is such an inherent bias to being multidimensional.