How Learning Multiple Skills Helps You Survive (and Maybe Build Wealth).
The days of the generalist and specialist are gone. Today we need to be multi-specialists.
In our world today, no job is safe. It doesn’t matter how far up or down the ladder it is. It doesn’t matter whether five years ago, it was a rare and highly paid skill. Our world is changing so fast that what worked last week is not a guarantee that it will work this week.
Nor can we be assured that if our high-level job is replaced by AI that we will be able to get a job waiting tables until we can find a new position. Low level jobs are disappearing faster than pancakes in a pancake shop. Today, the need is for multi-specialists — those people who have half a dozen specialist skills that can be adapted in a hurry to suit a situation. Some of them can be related, but in case a particular field goes south to banana-land, you will need something else to fall back on.
Below is an example of half a dozen skills which will always ensure that you have work of one sort or another.
