SysAdmin considered by many "unskilled" because it's too general? Time for a pivot?

Here’s my thoughts based on my leap from helpdesk > sysadmin at a small gig, to landing a much bigger one a few years back. YMMV: You’d be a mix of a sysadmin and a network admin from my experience. My guess is you’re solo/near solo in terms of cohorts, or maybe just over time you’ve picked up things. Or the very possible you’re good at it, so you get to do all the work. Being a generalist is fine if you stay in that sort of environment where there’s not a lot of personnel. Getting yourself most of the way for most of the things. You might even find yourself in a job making good money that way. I think it’s a great skill set to have getting to navigate many different things, especially when the base skills transfer across products in a lot of cases. It has done me quite well as a skill set, and is not something I’d bat an eye at in an interview. The problem is if you want to get to a bigger org. Bigger org = more people = greater chance that the place you’re gonna be working is more of a silo/have more defined areas of responsibility, depending on how you look at it. While there’s some generality to it, you’re talking about having a deeper knowledge of things across a smaller subset of things. That can be seen as “specializing”, but still gives you a wide breath to what you can dig in to. This is the sweet spot for my brain and my desire for work/life balance, which is more important than money. Then since I know they exist - full blown “you know one or two things, but you know the crap out of them” - you’re getting paid for your deep knowledge (hopefully). There’s places for it, but you have to be mindful about when it’s time to start shifting to something else before your skillset is no longer needed where you’re at OR always be playing with something else to give yourself an out. At least that’s how I see it. Specialists probably love what they do.