10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Tweet I did post on this topic 2 years ago but am revisiting it as this week I gave another talk to the ICAEW in the City at their headquarters. The seminar was on portfolio careers and I was kicking it off. As usual my session was followed by Nigel Peters from Alium Partners [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet Wonderful posting by brainpickings on how to find work that enables us to thrive !
{ 0 comments }
Tweet This is a question that I am beginning to be asked more often. One of the joys of a portfolio career is that in theory you can work as long as you wish – especially with the end of age discrimination. I have been quoting government statistics for some time that clearly suggests that [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet Its always interesting to see just who begins to follow you on twitter and a recent one was an outfit called KindredHQ. Fascinating site for people who are freelancers or considering it. It is a membership organisation but there is a lot of free stuff well worth looking at. It put me in touch [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet Well, we know that many portfolio workers – but not all, are entrepreneurs. And we know all entrepreneurs take lots of risks – don’t we? Years ago when I was running Lifeskills International we had a brilliant consultant working with us who has gone on to be the leading proponent of strengths coaching in [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet I developed my first Portfolio Career at the age of 15 when I took my first paying job. I was “horse crazy” and was hired by a classy horse stable and rental in the Washington, D.C. park system. I was hired to be the office person on weekends. I answered the phone, saddled up [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet According to the Prime Minister’s happiness index Londoners are the most stressed and dissatisfied people in England, How does one improve the score? I created my own index by making a jump from a corporate 9-5 to funding a new portfolio career. Procurement, NLP and Interior Design are not normally spoken in the same [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet And didn’t you write a book about all of this you might well ask! Well – yes, but that was nearly 3 years ago and although our basic premises are unchanged and the activities and tools that we describe are all still very relevant, what is new are the increasing number of stories that [...]
{ 0 comments }
Tweet Regular readers of this blog will recognise the name Marianne Cantwell. We invited her to write a piece on portfolio careers for the Gen Y’s in our book and since then she and I have become good friends. She invented this great title and is a walking example of being a free range human. [...]
{ 1 comment }
Tweet One of the most common questions I am asked. I am reminded of this firstly by going to London again today to deliver what is becoming a regular slot to talk to accountants at the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW) about the joys or otherwise of portfolio careers. And secondly [...]
{ 0 comments }
