Today’s topic is an interesting one, and depends largely on personal preference.  It’s something that comes up for engineers every day:  Be decent at many things, or be the absolute end-all-be-all expert in one thing?  Some might respond with, “Well, how about being an expert at everything?”

Aside: It sounds funny, but this should probably be the goal for every engineer.  I got great advice from my first manager:  create a skill matrix.  It was essentially an organized goal table consisting of career goals, skills, techniques, subject matter to learn, etc. that I wanted to accomplish.  Being an expert in all of them is optimal, but time and job constraints often prove this difficult.

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