I’ve started deep diving into genetic engineering at university but I’ve realized just how narrow of a field it is. That if I had to move cities or had a gap between GMO jobs, I’d be just as unemployable as someone who had just turned 18. Even for tangentially related biochem professions like hygiene inspection I’m missing the requisite papers. I wanted to ask if this is something you think is worth being concerned about. Would it make sense to get qualified as eg. an electrician so that I have a way to cover the financial gaps wherever I end up, and don’t have to resort to bar work?
Just my own opinion, developed through my own lived experiences. I, consciously, chose to not specialize too deep into one field and instead developed a more broad set of skills. The recent research is starting to validate my decisions back then. As it turns out, college grads with multiple minors, rather than graduates with a traditional major trajectory, tend to be better suited to the work environments.
Where knowledge of a range of disciplines helps inform a more holistic approach to creative problem solving. “Wicked problems” are often tackled and solved by systems thinking generalists because they draw on a wide range of experiences across multiple disciplines, departments, and sets of knowledge.
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