[DonRotolo]

Stump Ether would be a good challenge all right!

To the young'uns out there, after a lifetime as an engineer, the gentleman seems to have been paying attention to his surroundings, and applying the concept of continuous learning.

Some engineers learn more and more about a narrower and narrower field until they are experts. But give them a problem outside their field and they aren't engineers anymore, they're stumped.

Other engineers learn more and more, but on a variety of topics. They are very good at what their employer pays them for, but also reasonably competent in many other disciplines.

In a vary large company (or research facility), the first type does pretty well. In smaller companies, the latter do very well - or if they are in larger companies they become the managers of the first type.

Is one better than the other? No, but which do you think is more fun?