[Don Plumley]

Tough call for sure. You are correct that in a downturn situation, generalists get ranked and culled, specialists are required to keep the machine running.

Unless you are trying to climb to the top of the IT food chain, specialist skills in my mind are more valuable than generalist skills. I have a good friend that's a Unisys genius. And he knows how to make anything interoperate with unisys iron. Which means things like being dispatched down to Brazil to fix problems. That's fun.

But you should do what makes you happiest. If that's a better work environment, better people, more challenge - then that's what you should do in a cost neutral situation.