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Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Danger for Interaction Design
However, I do have the same problem. I'm more of a design generalist because of my innate curiosity. I don't think it's bad though. You get exposed to more things, processes, fields of work, if you choose to really explore. There's a point though where because we've been exposed to so much I don't have much interest in the tactical day-to-day work of UX design in whatever form and want to be the product visionary / leader.
I have enough experience from Hardware to Software to ID and almost all areas that I could be a producer/product developer/CD, "name of choice" for almost any product.
However, if you don't have the lineage for some of this work you aren't considered. I continue to think it's an educational thing. When you keep changing or morphing the scope on it, people don't know where to place you. that's good an bad. Bad because HR does a terrible job at knowing what half this crap is and B. because they don't have the know how to understand the critical thinking and design thinking that goes into any of this to see how it can apply to a variety of areas.
Almost everything has an interface, until we move to BCI that is, affordances, etc. So interaction design shouldn't just be about software/web, etc. Except that's where most people bucket the field.