[lightman]

Specialized skills fell aside as sustainment skills became critical. Artisans and artists were replaced by the jack-of-all-trades.

Twelve hundred years or so later such a "jack of all trades" would be acclaimed as a Rennaisance man.

Many professions, medecine especially, have been ruined by the specialists who know next to nothing outside of their very narrow area of expertise. We need more jacks of all trades and the sooner the better.

[RipSawyer]

We need more jacks of all trades and the sooner the better.
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Well, let's see, I am experienced in farming and gardening with everything from a mule or draft horse to a small farm tractor. I think I could make Lye soap although I have only watched my mother do it. I can build a small house unassisted, including plumbing and electrical, provided I don't have any pesky building inspectors in the way. I can do electronic repair and I have a wide range of mechanical experience, I am a good shot with a rifle, I have a small backhoe loader and a pickup truck and trailer to haul it. I have chain saws and I can cut a tree and make boards with the chain saws. I know how to notch logs for a log building. I have laid new firebrick to repair a damaged fireplace. I could list a lot of other stuff but that ought to qualify me as a jack of all trades (and master of none, I suppose).