10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
In our portfolio careers book we talk about how the web changes everything. The way we work, think, create and communicate. We forget how life was just 15 yrs ago. No Youtube, Amazon, ebay, no GOOGLE even. Take a look at this fascinating series on BBC 2 ( and on iPlayer – oh yes that [...]
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We often get asked just why we quote Seth so much on this site. Easy – he is so opinionated and whether or not you agree with him he always stops you in your tracks and makes you think. This TED talk is another example of this as well as being succinct and amusing. There [...]
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We have a chapter in the book that discusses the fact that most of us have a number of different selves hiding inside of us and there are some Cando’s that help you to identify just what they are. One plus of a portfolio career is that it can often allow us to express a [...]
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Picked this up from Steve Clayton’s site. Not sure where it comes from but strangely wonderful!
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Girls should be ‘realistic’ about careers and motherhood – schools group head
This article in the Guardian has caused a bit of a storm. 230 comments and counting….
Teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and a career woman, the president [...]
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A fascinating discussion appears to have begun in our LinkedIn portfolio careers discussion group. That excellent writer on careers and job finding, John Lees, started it off with this observation: ” A client suggested to me that a portfolio career is like a STONE ARCHWAY, with the keystone being the main element providing an income [...]
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Barrie recently posted about the F word(s) flexibility, fulfillment and freedom – some of the benefits of a portfolio career. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame talks about a similar thought around CHOICE. He suggests that if a genie could grant us our perfect work/life blend BUT the genie would do the scheduling – would we say yes? This [...]
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Many portfolio workers use mindmapping to help make sense and organise their complicated lives. There are many apps available on the web to help you do that,including the excellent site with Tony Buzan’s seal of approval. This will cost you around £50. However, there are now some free mindmapping tools to be found which, though [...]
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Reading a post this morning from Gretchen Rubin’s blog on happiness restimulated for me discussions that Katie and I have had about energy levels. In the book we talk about having to possess high energy levels to be a successful portfolio worker and that we were both blessed with such high levels that we can, [...]
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