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Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for ?, Hacker News

tl; dnr: Unhappy at my job after> 7 years. Love being a jack of all trades. Love learning new things. Hate being stagnant. Hate being the smartest person in the room. Need something new. What roles out there fit the skill set of someone that is good at a whole lot of things, but doesn’t feel like a master / senior in any one of them?

I’ve been at the same small company for over 7 years. I started at the bottom, worked my way to the top after 3 years, and I’ve been here since. For a couple years I created new positions for myself because I hate being stagnant, but there’s nothing else to do here.

I’m proficient in many things and enjoy doing all of them. Development (full stack), server admin, data center management, DevOps, project management, managing teams, VoIP, routing / switching, training, sales … the list goes on.

My issue is I haven’t had formal training in a lot of it, and I did not have any mentors or people above me to teach me more because this company is too small. I just love learning and love moving forward so I kept teaching myself new things, and then using them in the company. I don’t actually feel like I have impostor syndrome, but I also feel like someone that is filling these roles at another company probably knows / does it better job than I can. I’m just a big fish in a small pond here.

So finally to my question: what role / job title I should be looking for? All the searching I do points me to one specific roles. PHP Developer. Systems Admin. Network Engineer. Etc. Are there any other “Jack of all trades” out there that can tell me what your job title is, and what I could be looking for?

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