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My advice would be to stick to concrete, specific descriptions of what you've done, and if you're giving elevator pitches to keep in mind what it is you're pitching for, and stay relevant to that. To be completely honest, your description above comes across as very smug and impressed with yourself, which can be off-putting.

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In other words, abandon hope of finding the rare employer who'll get what you can bring to the table right from the jump. Just get a pigeon-hole job like everyone else. But he's not that - he could have specialized like the rest of the herd, and didn't, even early on. If he wants to be valued for what is he, and he does, he needs an unusually astute employer. They exist - they're hard to find, and sometimes hard to get to, and prove oneself to, but they exist.

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