porfolio career
The only freedom we truly have is the freedom of choice. You can choose anything you want.”
Vadim Zeland • Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
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
These are just a few examples and I love that my work is amorphous and ever changing. It ebbs and flows as my life moves, priorities change, interests evolve, and desires and hopes and dreams become clear.
That’s the thing about portfolio careers. They help you construct a home for yourself so you stop looking for one in other places.
That’s the thing about portfolio careers. They help you construct a home for yourself so you stop looking for one in other places.
WTF is a portfolio career?
Every four years, something inside me shifts. I get restless and want to learn something new or apply my skills in a new way. It’s as though I shed a professional skin and start over, fresh.
April Rinne • Why You Should Build a “Career Portfolio” (Not a “Career Path”)
Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.
Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more
Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more
A portfolio career involves having multiple income streams, clients, products and projects on the go. It’s both a model of working and approach to life - one that de-centres the system and radically reorients how we deploy our time, energy and skills.
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