WTF is a portfolio career?
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WTF is a portfolio career?
As a society, we’re gradually starting to view “work” not as a single place of employment, but as a series of engagements or projects.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
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
Picking a single, lifelong career feels like an impossible task for me.As soon as I’ve gone deep into one domain, I feel compelled to explore another. Stability spawns a desire for novelty. Novelty spawns a desire for stability. The cycle goes on ad infinitum.
Stew Fortier • A dozen lives
Engaging in this quest became far easier for me when I decoupled the idea of "work" from the idea of a "job." Without this constraint, I can take my work more seriously and less seriously at the same time. I can both prioritize the work that matters to me and remain detached from what that work says about me as a person. If I ha
... See morePaul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
The artistic variation on general portfolio thinking is the day job. You have some areas of your life that are steady and low risk. You may not enjoy them as much as working on your art, but they pay for your life. The other parts of your portfolio are projects that may be successful artistically or financially, or neither or both. The day job cove
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