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

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Post by the-peter »

akcreek wrote: post #51

I have a wide-ranging self-taught skill set as well that I've developed over the last 14 years of running my own businesses. I'll share what I'm doing from a high level as it might not be the most common path. I've been acquiring small but promising businesses that don't have the right team in place to move them forward. I bootstrap them on my own and replace my roles as the business can afford staff. Once enough rol…

Same here, can't find your email. I am also a 'jack of all trades' and I'm ready to wrap up my third business and find something new. I'd love to talk to you, maybe do something together, maybe just trade our stories.

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Post by bouncearound »

akcreek wrote: post #51

I have a wide-ranging self-taught skill set as well that I've developed over the last 14 years of running my own businesses. I'll share what I'm doing from a high level as it might not be the most common path. I've been acquiring small but promising businesses that don't have the right team in place to move them forward. I bootstrap them on my own and replace my roles as the business can afford staff. Once enough rol…

i see you removed your email from profile good move. I rarely sign up to respond to someone but I think you may have been blessed to find the very unique niche that just may fit exactly my skillset.

I get companies and ideas off the ground, once it gets corporate level, i lose interest. Makes me feel I'm not cut out for that corporate lifetsyle... SO I wonder like you what can work.

Latest business venture since trying this method - service provider company, we hire various experts. Then internally we create campaigns out of pocket and as the calls come in we direct them to various industry.

  We should most definitely speak. I have several projects that fit our unqiue abilities.

  For 38 years I said i'm never going to achieve because I cannot stay in the same position once it becomes routine.... This is a brilliant approach! how can we be in contact? mrtorah AT gmail email me when you have a chance id like to see what you have going, we have a bit of financing and targeting some higher ticket niches right now.

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

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Post by perl4ever »

Can_Not wrote: post #209
perl4ever wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you spend $44K on a project and live off of it at the same time, in the latter case where someone handed you the money? And if you are saving $44K per year, why can't you work for two years and then take one year off, having both $44K to live on and $44K to spend on a project? And finally, didn't this start with a $44K loan, not a gift?

Bold of you to assume I have even more money.

In the scenario where you are handed $44K, you don't have even more money. Therefore, you have to work if you are spending it on some project.

The comparison you made was inconsistent.

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

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Post by bsanr2 »

cloverich wrote: post #207
bsanr2 wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>among people in his position That is, among college students without the baggage of full adulthood (debt, personal responsibilities, the mental and physical degradation that starts as early as your mid-twenties, and the risk aversion that comes with these things), and with the support of at least moderately wealthy parents and the affordances they bring: yes, there's not much here to show above-average performance.…

There's literally millions of college students in that position every year. Its absolutely not common for most of them to start _a_ successful business, let a lone several. I've worked at companies who had far more money, more connections, and more advantages, that ended up with less. OP's an outlier irrespective of their advantages. > the mental and physical degradation that starts as early as your mid-twenties Degr…

Out of the ~20 million college students, the number that come from families with $40k in liquid assets is probably not plural-millions-with-an-s, and is probably considerably less than a million. With the field of competition winnowed thusly, and again considering the myriad unearned advantages such a background generally entails, this person's success is probably far more common than you're wagering. All you're proving is that people in his class are far less deserving than we'd thought.

>Degrading in your twenties (in any meaningful sense) is _highly_ atypical.

Nah. One's twenties are a common period for mental illness to develop, as well as the period when heretofore silent congenital defects become apparent. It is also generally the first time when injuries become much less likely to fully heal, and when they may become lifelong encumberances.

Someone who hasn't experienced some form of degradation by 30 - worsening eyesight, a sports injury, onset of depression, even balding - is someone who is privileged indeed.

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

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Post by Dansvidania »

BossingAround wrote: post #72
Dansvidania wrote: post #17

I have a pretty similar story: Worked in enterprise for the last few years and recently I ended up leading and coordinating a "scrum" team in a technical lead position. I do not spend as much time as I would like contributing to the codebase (the devs in my team do often a better job of it), but rather tend to act as a solution architect. I often bootstrap projects, do a lot of research and development, build proof o…

> but I feel like I have lowered my value in the general market Seeing the quality and technical abilities of scrum masters I've worked with, that statement is probably true. That said, if you can demonstrate that you're a good scrum master that is actually technically skilled, I'd pay your weight in gold for you... Monthly...

I have worked in scrum for years now and I still have very little clue about what a "good scrum master" really does.

Mine, so far, weren't.

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

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Post by akcreek »

ahpearce wrote: post #210
akcreek wrote: post #51

I have a wide-ranging self-taught skill set as well that I've developed over the last 14 years of running my own businesses. I'll share what I'm doing from a high level as it might not be the most common path. I've been acquiring small but promising businesses that don't have the right team in place to move them forward. I bootstrap them on my own and replace my roles as the business can afford staff. Once enough rol…

Couldn't find your e-mail in your profile and wanted to get in touch. Very interested in going down this path, or potentially working together.

I did not expect the response I received to this post. I received 100+ emails in a few hours and had to remove my contact info as I was only expecting a few people to reach out. I wasn't intending to create a major distraction from my work for myself.
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