I thought you'd never ask:

I am, in my heart, a synthesist....one who is jack of many trades, and master of few. I studied Philosophy, but found even that to be not broad enough.

In a sci-fi novel I read once, there was this giant ship, sent from earth to colonize the stars...designed to survive hundreds of generations if nesessary...(hydroponics, databases...the works)...but all the specialization necessary to make a big ship run eventually created a society in which most individuals had little idea what their history was or what the relationship was between their job and and others.

So...this kid was born, who was a mis-fit...failed all the aptitude tests and seemed to be doomed to menial labor...but he explored, found secret places, discoved ancient texts,(you get the idea)..and LO! it was discovered that the 'planners' had forseen all this and planted stuff for just such a one to stumble onto so as to rekindle knowlege and forge lost bonds between the disciplines...a *synthesist*.......

...that's me.....in the meantime, until I'm called, I turn wood and kibitz.