In my line of work of being a contracting software engineer, I have to take on many different types of projects, some in fields that are foreign to me or touching parts of the operating system that I have never used before. I’ve had to learn a lot to get things going. For example, I learned how to setup and maintain Linux machines (thanks to Phil Karn for helping me first learn Linux for a work project) and learned how to administer a Mac OS X server.
So with my ability to adopt to lots of different projects, I sometimes ask myself, what am I good at? Turns out, I’m pretty good at tackling whatever is thrown at me. I don’t like doing anything half way and do my absolute best to become an expert at something because in many cases, my clients wouldn’t come to me if someone else was already an expert!
Doing a quick search on Wikipedia gives the full quote to the title of this blog entry.