As a person who was a "specialist" at IBM I can say it just means you specialize in fixing things, not any particular thing, whatever they throw at you. I imagine this guy is saying he doesn't paint, clean or do carpentry, he just fixes broken stuff.
What did you do for Big Blue? I had so much fun with the IBM mainframes back in the 1960's and 70's.
TDD
A little bit of everything CE up to Specialist, IPR, Instructor, Contract Services and support rep in Endicott.
I'd never go back as a temp. The idiots would have penalized my pension. There are too many others out there who want my skills to go back there. It was a great place to work for the first fifteen or twenty years but after the last few I have no use for the place. OTOH, their money is gladly taken. ;-)
My temp assignments were when I was still working. After I left I did a little contracting for them and that gets you out of the "pension" problem. One of our guys who left at the same time as me came back as a CE/contractor for a while. He was truly double dipping it. In real life they didn't need him and let him go at the end of the contract. I really don't have many bad things to say and they did try to find a place for me but I was just too expensive for what their operation became. They stopped doing all the things they trained me to do.
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