The Multi-Hyphen Method: The Sunday Times business bestseller

The best piece of advice I could give is to calculate your monthly living costs, times that by three and have that as your backup fund.

allowing yourself space to breathe • allowing yourself to not be defined by a box that having one job – with a title chosen by someone else – can put you in • having the courage and tools to make big moves on the side, without risking financial stability • giving yourself the confidence to not be defined by one thing

You are running your own business, with a mixture of skills to offer. It’s about creating and maintaining security and your own online ecosystem.

As Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance pioneer, pointed out:

‘All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. As civilization came, we suppressed it. We became “labor” because they stamped us, “You are labor.” We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.’4 We are told that some of us have an entrepre

But it all starts with incentive, intention, enjoyment and curiosity.

The future looks unpredictable, so how can we pretend that sitting at a nine-to-five desk is stable or secure? We are all entrepreneurs now. The very meaning and idea of what an entrepreneur is has changed (it’s not just people in Silicon Valley, it’s you, it’s me, it’s anyone sat at their kitchen table

An article in Quartz said that ‘Millennials didn’t invent the second job, they just branded it.’11 People have always had multiple jobs, but the millennial generation, who are mostly told ‘You can be whatever you want to be!’ are freaked out by the hierarchy and the slow pace of the workplace and are using side-hustles to get ahead.

You are not your job title, instead you move in between different jobs, alongside powerful strategic personal branding, you funnel, organise, outreach, monetise and schedule your work yourself.