GENERALIST OR SPECIALIST?
- April 07, 2018
- by Nur Imroatun Sholihat
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Berada di dunia TI menyadarkan saya pentingnya menjadi spesialis.
Setiap orang di sekeliling saya memiliki embel-embel tertentu berkat kedispilinan,
konsistensi, dan dedikasi di suatu bidang. This person is a programmer, that
person is a database expert, the person over there is a network administrator, the
person who is speaking now is a data scientist, the person beside me is an information
security specialist and what am I? I’m just a bit of computer networking here and a bit of IT governance there. Nothing more. In fact, people will remember
other people’s names when the words “computer networking” or “IT governance” come up. So,
when my name is suddenly mentioned, what will people remember instantly? It
bothered my mind—really.
So my mind defended: “But what if instead of a specialist, I’m a
generalist?” What if I am a generalist in the world of specialists? What if I
am a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary kind of person? Emang nggak jago banget
di suatu bidang tapi bisa lah dikit-dikit di beragam bidang (Haha. Sounds like a
lame excuse :p). But truthfully it seems like nowadays people can’t afford to
just be a generalist. The world is craving specialists more than ever!
But then, my mind offended me: “The bad news is, I am not even a
generalist”. Generalis kan harus paham banyak hal dengan kedalaman sedang
sementara pemahaman saya pada banyak hal itu sangatlah dangkal. Yet to be a
specialist is way far ahead. Huhu. Jadi mikir: kalau bukan generalis dan bukan
spesialis, saya apaan sih? Saya mau gimana sih sama hidup saya? :(
Pertanyaan ini sepertinya membutuhkan waktu yang panjang untuk
akhirnya terjawab. That’s why saat
ini saya akan mengerjakan apa saja sebisa saya meskipun terdengar sepele. Saya
akan selalu bersedia untuk mengerjakan hal-hal yang umum sampai nanti saatnya
saya menemukan sesuatu yang ingin saya pelajari lebih dalam bukan karena saya
dipaksa berada di dalamnya. Suatu saat saya ingin jatuh cinta pada sebuah
bidang TI dengan passion yang
menyala seperti yang saya lihat di mata rekan-rekan saya. One day, insyaAllah
I’ll be a specialist (or maybe generalist) but right now, let me be someone
who run over here and there in confusion and pretend to be okay. Biarkan saya
dan ketidakmengertian saya terseok-seok mengerjakan pekerjaan yang diberikan
kepada saya. Right now, just let me, with my lacking self, to learn this and
that randomly. Just pardon me, my co-workers, that I’m such an ordinary person
who doesn’t understand anything deeply. I’ll do my best to keep up with you all.
I’m good at working hard anyway—because being left behind so many times taught
me to work harder. Still I’m not good to be compared to you guys. Still, I’m
trying because I believe someday I’ll be good enough.
Dear everyone, define the kind of specialist you want to be in
the future and walk step-by-step to be there yaaaa. See you there. Semangat :)
Nah ini, something that i found for.
ReplyDeletekatanya sih, generalist is the new specialist, hahaha (ngeles)
ReplyDeleteHaha. But somehow, kita pasti pengen kan diingat karena keahlian tertentu? :)
DeleteTapi iya banget jadi generalist itu keren kok.