10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
5.1 million people in the UK. According to Judith Woods from the Telegraph thats how many people are choosing to work part time. After you have read the article – please read some of the comments. It gives you a flavour of how different people see this way of working. Some seem to think you [...]
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I am consistently surprised and delighted by the range of metaphors that appear from members of our portfolio careers linkedin group. And maybe I am going slightly mad after yet another day of continuous rain in the UK but this fantastic Ted video comes via last week’s TEDxSummit which gathered 700 organizers from 120 countries [...]
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is the title of a fascinating book by Matt Emerzian who has an amazing life story which led him to write the book and then create a US nationwide educational and corporate campaign to get people to feel passionate about something. There is a great article in Fast Company which describes this well. One [...]
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Eric Ries developed this system for analysing the real cause behind what seems to to be a technical problem. The video is of him explaining this but this technique seemed to me to be too powerful just to analyse technical problems. It works to analyse your career goals, your dreams and ambitions, a relationship issue [...]
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Katie recently was invited to do a TED talk here in the UK and not surprisingly talked about portfolio careers. She focused especially on a point that we both now emphasise all the time when discussing the future of work and new patterns of careers. Namely, that already it makes less [...]
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This is the title of an article summarised in the BPS Research Digest Blogging on Brain and Behaviour.
It could have significant implications for portfolio workers. We are often searching for new work, new clients, new income sources. This research suggests that this could lead to a preoccupation with linking hours to amount of pay. As [...]
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An interesting article in the London Evening Standard recently highlights a new agency set up by women for women who are looking for part time work. Women Like Us is not just a recruitment operation for would be part time female workers but focuses on helping employers ” who value talent more than round-the-clock availability. [...]
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A long running joke between Katie and me has been that as an ex-tv journalist and newsreader she has always had the most professional looking photos of herself available – and still does. I have made do with some pics that my wife took in our dining room at no cost whatsoever. The difference in [...]
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I just loved a letter to the Financial Times from Jim Sanders in the US in which he states that “Concepts such as portfolio careers, artfully deconstructed jeans, deconstructed jackets, retro T-shirts and male moisturisers hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”.
To my knowledge I don’t own anything ‘deconstructed’ other than possibly a cat. Of [...]
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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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