The challenge facing individuals in current times is the same challenge facing most companies that grew up in the 20th century. Like them, our educations are ones that taught us how to be excellent workers in a Model T factory. But lamenting this will not help. We need to ask ourselves some pretty basic questions, and deal honestly with the answers.
* How to know what of the past will be relevant to the future.
* What of the past needs to be binned.
* And what new things do I need to do it become in order to actually be financially viable in that future.
And those questions needed to be answered yesterday to have been in time. But, for many of us, they remain unanswered. And for some of us, we haven’t even posed them yet. The Sears, Toys-r-Us, Blackberry tales tell us this.
If you expect to need to earn an income in the next 5–20 years, don’t delay, act today. Your skills base needs attention if you want to be fit for the future.