10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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Mike Pegg as always has some great thoughts on continuously creating and developing work that is satisfying.
Stage one is your ‘seed corn’. You plant lots of seeds and explore many possibilities. Some seeds grow and people show interest. You also put extra effort into the projects you find stimulating.
Stage two is ‘satisfying work’. You [...]
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Yes according to an article in the online version of the Spectator. He is planning to follow the portfolio career path of his predecessor, Mr Blair. The Spectator claims that his asking rate is $100,000 a gig. Plus first class travel and accommodation. We always discuss the pluses of following a portfolio career but in [...]
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We have been very impressed with the work that Antonia Chitty has been doing in encouraging Mums to set up their own businesses. We know that 60% of all new businesses start in the home. We know that many of these are set up by women.
167, 353 self-employed mothers work from home.
Mums who run their [...]
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I had the very challenging experience recently of having our own question thrown straight at me. It was an interview conducted by vitae who have interviewed many people over the past year or so to give undergraduates and new graduates some case studies to help stimulute them to thinking more about what they want from [...]
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I was fascinated recently to be invited to talk at a conference for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). Apparently many of their members had expressed an interest in the topic of portfolio careers. There was especial interest from the 50+’s. I think that it has taken the accountancy profession many [...]
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It is interesting but perhaps predictable that more and more graduates are exploring the notion of portfolio careers. Certainly some are taking more than one job because of financial necessity but there is increasing evidence to suggest that the concept is attractive to the Gen Y group. Barrie has written an article on this issue [...]
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In addition, more than half (55 per cent) of the 3,000 employees asked wished they could do something completely different in life. This will of course be no surprise to those of us who have given up on finding the one job that will utilise all of our skills and engage all of our passions.
Given [...]
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I just came across this fascinating TED talk by Harvard professor Larry Lessig, one of the foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition. So what has this got to do with portfolio careers? Many portfolio workers, including us, who currently have 5 websites between us, constantly have [...]
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Today we have another guest posting. This time from Alexis Bonari who describes hereself as ” a freelance writer and blog junkie”. She is currently a resident education blogger and performs research surrounding http://www.collegescholarships.org. In her spare time, she enjoys “square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop”. Alexis was stimulated by what we had to [...]
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This is according to research by Russam GMS business forum Interimwomen. The research revealed that a third of interims prefer to handle a number of assignments part time, 57% said they were happy to work for either one or more clients and just 9% of interims said they preferred to work on one assignment at [...]
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