Mike

“Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.”
― Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose

“Career development is a process. It is driven by a combination of five factors: (1) interests, (2) skills and abilities, (3) passions, (4) personality, and (5) opportunities. Each of these five elements is critical and influential in the trajectory of your career.”
― Kenneth M. Settel M.D., CEO PSYCHOLOGY: WHO RISES, WHO FALLS AND WHY

“The label “jack-of-all-trades but master of none” is normally meant to be derogatory, implying that the labelee lacks the focus to really dive into a subject and master it. But, when your online shopping application is on the fritz and you’re losing orders by the hundreds as each hour passes, it’s the jack-of-all-trades who not only knows how the application’s code works but can also do low-level UNIX debugging of your web server processes, analyze your RDBMS’s configuration for potential performance bottlenecks, and check your network’s router configuration for hard-to-find problems. And, more important, after finding the problem, the jack-of-all-trades can quickly make architecture and design decisions, implement code fixes, and deploy a new fixed system to production. In this scenario, the manufacturing scenario seems quaint at best and critically flawed at worst.”
― Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

“You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.”
― Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams