{"id":1536,"date":"2017-01-24T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:15:55","slug":"trials-and-tribulations-of-a-technical-generalist-for-hire-with-dave-henry-episode-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2017\/01\/trials-and-tribulations-of-a-technical-generalist-for-hire-with-dave-henry-episode-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Trials and Tribulations of a Technical Generalist For Hire with Dave Henry &#8211; Episode 129"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you have lots of skills. That&#8217;s great, most of the time. But when is that diversity of skills a liability?\u00a0Our guest, Dave Henry, <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfluent.com\/2017\/01\/13\/job-search-mode-engaged\/\">wrote a blog post about his recent free agent status<\/a>\u00a0that inspires this conversation today and its one the Geek Whisperers are sure other listens have wondered about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/techfieldday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dave-headshot-wpcf_200x300.jpg\" \/>Some takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His favorite part of the job being on more than one side or the other of the engineering process<\/li>\n<li>The many hats of a job is where you feel very blessed and very cursed depending on the perspective<\/li>\n<li>There are no smooth tracks to follow in our careers and Dave digs into his own journey with us<\/li>\n<li>Wonderful anecdotes from many years in the industry and a few tips that will connect you into your inner gut decision making model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dave is currently available for hire and can easily be found on his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfluent.com\">Geek Fluent<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davemhenry\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8229\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1536-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1536-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you have lots of skills. That&#8217;s great, most of the time. But when is that diversity of skills a liability?\u00a0Our guest, Dave Henry, wrote a blog post about his recent free agent status\u00a0that inspires this conversation today and its one the Geek Whisperers are sure other listens have wondered&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2017\/01\/trials-and-tribulations-of-a-technical-generalist-for-hire-with-dave-henry-episode-129\/\">Read All Show Notes<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trials and Tribulations of a Technical Generalist For Hire with Dave Henry &#8211; Episode 129<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8230\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1536-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1536-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Dave-Henry-Episode-129.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}