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

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The rise of multipotentialites, slashies, and neo-generalists building portfolio careers reflects a growing recognition that our contributions need not be limited to a single field. Multihyphenate professionals—people who engage in such a wide range of occupations that they need multiple hyphens to describe their work—were once mostly found in the

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