10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Increasingly my simplistic answer to this is ‘NO’. Career planning seems to be an oxymoron.
Career surfing might be a better metaphor. You never know what the weather is going to be like, it changes while you are surfing, its sometimes difficult to stay upright and you can’t guarantee your direction or speed. And sometimes you [...]
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…very different from what it was. Katie in her last posting referred to the proposal to institute a 21 hour work week which would spread existing employment further and enable a better life blend for people. That is one possibility. There are many more and all relate to the notion that the Industrial Era of [...]
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21 hour working week – possibility or half worked idea?
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Interesting blog posting which spells out the variety of roles for which musicians could get paid. Wouldn’t it be good to take careers outside of the music world and to plot the possible different roles in one’s portfolio bag? Any suggestions? Good one this for a possible discussion on our portfolio careers linked in group.
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I was stimulated to post something on this topic as I give many talks on the future of work as well as on portfolio careers. Politicians are rarely in the vanguard when it comes to recognising social change and listening to all the parties at their conference jamborees once again we hear the pleas for [...]
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There are an increasing number of sites in the UK and especially in the US that now post freelance opportunities for all kinds of workers. Most of these will of course be portfolio workers. We have just come across one launched in August for freelance PR people so pass it on to you.
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If you have read our book you might recall this illustration of someone who enjoys what we call a serial career pattern. This is a person who no matter how well they are doing and how much they have enjoyed their work every 5,6 or 7 years get bored and in need of a new [...]
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There is always another way to do the work, life, spirit, money, family thing….
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Lynda’s new book, The Shift. from Hot Spots Movement on Vimeo.
Those of you know who know me or know of me will have seen my oneliner which I believe sums up the driving force behind much of the work that I have done in my life so far.
“Helping people become architects of their own future”.
I [...]
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I know a few people, a very few people, who enjoy commuting as it gives them time to prepare for the day or conversely time to dump it on the way home. Personally my very first job in London with the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) involved a 20 minute walk. I loved this [...]
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