Keeping Job Current

I was doing some reading on the internet and came across an article by a career consultant in Cincinati named Andrea Kay, entitled, Evolve Your Skills to Keep Your Work Relevant. I thought she made some great observations and offered some helpful suggestions. Fits well with what I've been thinking about trying to keep current, especially regarding technology, and avoid being a "Blinking 12:00 Generation" member. She wrote:

At some point you really need to sit down and figure out how to keep yourself employable. If you don't, you will constantly be trying to figure out how to stay merely employed. Here's the difference: When you only wonder, "where are the jobs?" you've focused on merely staying employed. But when you focus on discovering new ways to apply your talents and interested to the megatrends shaping the world, that's thinking about staying employable for the future. Doing the latter will keep you relevant, which means you're less likely to be in that constant state of asking, "where's my next job?" You should be looking at trends that then leads you to, well, a way to stay employable the rest of your career.

That's not only true for your next job, but true to stay relevant in your current position or with your current employer. Throughout her article she encourages the reader to start asking three main questions, sooner rather than later, and often. According to Kay, we should keep asking,

How can I:

• Retrofit my skills to remain relevant?
• How do technological trends and social changes apply to my career?
• What new skills and knowledge can I add to my line of work to support those?
• Can I incorporate new trends into my current work, and if so, how?
• Blend two careers to make a new specialty?
• What skills, interests and talents do I have that I can blend into a new speciality that fits a growing need?
• Create a job that solves a growing problem?
• What problems are people facing and how can I come up with new roles and functions to help solve them?

I've got some thinking to do....