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A dozen lives
Moreover, our culture of specialization conflicts with something most of us intuitively recognize, but which career advisers are only beginning to understand: we each have multiple selves. … We have complex, multi-faceted experiences, interests, values and talents, which might mean that we could also find fulfillment as a web designer, or a communi... See more
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group of interests, passions, and activities it is? And what if instead of identifying with a job description, you began to see the whole mass of things you do as one portfolio of activity?
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
Daniel Pink, in his book Free Agent Nation, noted that America's career landscape was changing and would soon be dominated by freelancers or portfolio careerists. Bill Bridges' book Jobshift argued along similar lines, Marci Alboher's One Person/Multiple Careers highlighted this growing trend among normal people in the United States and more recent
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