My classmate, Yoav, had written two insightful articles about his experience in consulting. The articles can be found here and here. I was struck by his comment on whether to specialize in a specific field or to seek for inter-disciplinary competence. Interestingly enough, I have heard arguments on specializing versus generalizing from my numerous conversations with classmates and friends. Overall, many people have advocated a specialist approach but with experience working different industrial context. In other words, if you are an IT person, understand about a few area - manufacturing, aerospace, public sector, etc - where your IT skills can be applied. I am in a juncture in my life where I am contemplating about changing career and even industry. I have a general direction on where I am going but I don't have the specifics yet. But that's the beauty of being in graduate school; I get to ponder and experiment what exactly I want to do by actively engaging in electives, career opportunities, activities, and the school student community.

8/12/2005 8:59:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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