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by gsarrica 4007 days ago
I know many companies who would rather have someone like you. Someone who they can give a problem to and they know you can solve it because of your wide knowledge base. "Sorry we can't give this problem to Bob to solve because all he knows is tech X." This is worth a lot to some people.

It's also not that you know many things, it's that you can learn other things easily and quickly. (without training)

The hard part is finding the right place to work at. Many large corporations are looking for a square peg for a square hole.

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Exactly on all that you just said. There are places but they are hard to find. The intersection of "looking for a generalist" and "doing interesting and/or meaningful work" is tiny.