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Career Prompt Reflection

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!

I hope your week has started with the right energy and insights!

I have a prompt for you this morning to stimulate you in your career reflection.

Lately on social media, I observed a strange/silly behaviour: people who glorify themselves because wearing multiple hats.

Do you know?! When someone does many things at once generally speaking s/he doesn't do anything well. They couldn't never been the best at anything but only generalist in many things.

In our culture lately we also tent to confusing term: multitasking, for example, doesn't mean wearing different hats, it means, in a given contest or situation, to be able to organise ownself time and resources for efficiency.

For example an ICU nurse taking care of a sick patient, is not a multitasking nurse because of managing different things at the same time (monitor, ventilation, syringe pumps etc) but s/he is a specialised nurse, because she's been trained to take care to complex patients, and so s/he multitasking in that give moment (during shift). This is why, in normal condition, it is one nurse per patient!

This is the reason why specialised nurses earn more than general nurses or specialised doctors earn more than general practitioner. And this is true for any profession (layers, accountants, etc)

So my question for you is: if you have a problem or a need, that you need to solve as soon as possible and well, would you go to the specialist or to the generalist? Who would you prefer to take care of you? And most importantly: would you prefer spend more money once and be sure that your problem or need is addressed properly, or do you prefer spend less money but several times and risk that your problem or need would never be solved?

This question should drive your career decision.

Why? Because is the same question that your patients/clients ask themselves when they decide to give their needs (or money) to you.

That's true, get specialised requires time and effort but it is a commitment that repays so much in the long run!

Let me know what you are thinking about and what is your experience 👇🏻

Happy Tuesday!

~Dina

Edited, it looks like I didn't express myself properly:

So in this prespective, would you rather get specialised and earning more or remain generalist and earn less but do different things/experience? What resonates the most for you? As I do several things but all of them go towards Career Coaching (even my clinical role as it has an educational and coaching aspect)

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