the full saying is "a jack of all trades, master of none is oft better than a master of one"

"...ofttimes better than a master of one."

Because we shouldn't have masters, hierarchies are bad.

See this is why I like the channel Technology Connections. It's all about going into the in-depth of every day household tech and how it's all interconnected.

I agree and have seen the same things many times. I can't teach but I can do a great many things competently. This is not always appreciated by others.

A synergist is someone who understands a whole process covering multiple disciplines. It pays well if you can get the job. The problem with that is you have to overcome those that only know one discipline and they don't take well to someone coming in and making changes they don't understand because they can only see a part of the process and can't see their part in the solution.

I could do that job but I'm not great with the hand holding necessary to get closed minds to shift to a new shape.

At work it starts with a need and then I want to know as much as possible about it. Need is the beginning of the process. Want is just the natural progression.

I'm sure thats part of it. My schedule for this week includes preparing eight cisco switches for deployment in a distributed multi vlan environment. Rebuilding my daughters iphone XR and reassembling a 2000 dollar 3d printer with a bad linear bearing and two questionable steppers. On top of that I've finished a remix of a keychain in freecad and started on modifying another fidget for two color printing. I don't think I would know how to do any of those things if I had been born in to money.

I have a coworker who is in his mid twenties who has undiagnosed ADHD and this is the first job he has ever had. He was hired as a favor to his family. He has never wanted for anything in his life and it shows. He isn't stupid he just hasn't ever had to struggle for anything. Its maddening to me. He thinks I don't like him but in truth I just want him to realize he has ADHD. It wont do any good to tell him if he isn't willing to accept it.

I enjoy it well enough for work. I have an aptitude for it and can fit in the tight spaces I need to in the role that I'm in. It's all the issues of being a mechanic with the added joy of your machine can be as big as a building.

I know in Canada with a red seal I have a lot of options if I am willing to travel/relocate. The pay is on par with other trades if your boss doesn't want massive turnover.

I know exactly what you mean. I got the musical talent version. I remember being in 10th grade in music class and the teacher passed out band instruments to everyone in the class so we could play with them and laugh at how bad we all sounded. I was late that day and got the only thing left over. A trombone. A week later barely a handful of the students could get a solid note or two out of their random trumpets or clarinets, etc. I was playing "When the Saints go Marching in" with flourishes like a New Orleans brass band.

I got an entry level job sanding military helmets a couple years ago. The kind of job that hires anyone to do the shit work. Two and a half years later I am in charge of the most complicated product the company makes. I'm now the only person in the world who makes the JHMCS helmet. (Google it)

I mean ~80% of the world's population takes stimulants daily in the form of caffeine. Childhood ADHD rates are now at ~12%, and the testing criteria for ADHD revolves largely around whether it negatively impacts your life.

If everyone else is increasingly taking stimulants for it and you're not, then you're more likely to feel negatively impacted since you'll stand out, which is likely to increase the diagnosis rate further.

I don't think it's unlikely that we see a world where like half the population has an ADHD diagnosis, and/or the treatment for ADHD (i.e. more effective stimulants then caffeine), become over the counter.

Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.

All of those traits generally make you a less predictable and harder to manage worker. Capitalism absolutely cares about those traits very significantly.

I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.

This is literally impossible to say. Your brain would still work similarly, but it would have been shaped by entirely different stimuli and environment, so it would not be working the same. It's also entirely possible that those tendencies are beneficial in different historical contexts. Other systems like feudalism may also similarly view ADHD as a detriment, but that doesn't mean that every system / context does.

Person above you likely has never experienced executive disfunction.

I need to do this, I actually want to do this, why am I not doing this?

I'm Mickey17, TYVM.

(Never read the book, but seem to be one of the few to like the movie.)