In a Wall Street Journal article, Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind, I was struck by how it described the need to inhabit more than one world to land tomorrow's plum job. The article makes it clear that being a specialist in one area doesn't cut it. Instead, the advice is to combine expertise in one domain (e.g., your college major) with skills in "emerging trends." Examples: communications + social media, nursing + IT, financial analyst + risk management.  Photo by greenforall.org.

This is good news for boundary crossers, who naturally move between more than one world. What worlds do you move between, where you have knowledge and expertise? And more importantly, how does the convergence of those worlds fit with the needs of the marketplace?  This is the jigsaw puzzle of careers.