10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
From the category archives:
Career Paralysis: 5 Reasons Why Our Brains Struggle With Career Decisions (And How Psychology Can Help)
We talk a great deal in our book on the changing nature of careers so I was delighted to come across this fascinating slide show from Rob Archer from Bloom Psychology.
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“the ability to blend what we do for a living ”. I love that line. Different from balance – BLEND is alot more fluid and can be scaled up or down depending on your circumstances and needs. Having done a couple of newspaper interviews recently, I think we need to get away from the idea of a “proper” [...]
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Denise Kingsmill writes in Management Today about Suite Careers. She says:
They are representatives of a new class of worker with no fixed office abode, moving from meeting to meeting via the coffee shop. From accountants to ad people, from music and media types to engineers and academics, these are citizens who have opted for a [...]
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Dan Pink in a recent TED talk refers to taking a Sagmeister. This is an expression taken from the inspirational designers own recent TED talk in which he says that he takes a year of his retirement NOW. Every 7 years he takes a year out.
Returning from a sabbatical in Indonesia back [...]
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The annual study from Robert Half International and CareerBuilder provides a preview of what they see as the post recession scenario for jobs. In the next 12 months, more than half of employers polled plan to hire full-time employees, four in 10 will hire contract, temporary or project workers, and four in 10 will [...]
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We are delighted to have Hannah Morgan as our guest blogger again. Her recipe here should be meat and drink to all portfolio workers:
This recipe calls for large quantities of self awareness, self discipline and self confidence. It will serve as many people as you want it to.
Pre-heat oven.
Prepare surface by conducting an honest [...]
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Portfolio workers usually spend more time than more traditional workers in looking at alternative jobs and careers because they enjoy change and challenges. You might therefore be interested in looking at an article which describes what people in the US are now predicting as the ‘hot’ jobs for the next 20 years.
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There is an excellent article in todays Guardian by Stuart Jeffries in which he quotes various writers and commentators on what they think is happening to our concept of work. It is interesting of course to us to see ‘portfolio careers’ as an example of what workers are now interested in exploring and also to [...]
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Hugh, as ever has his take on portfolio careers:
In my last blog post, an interview with Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, Chris had a brilliant thought:
"If ever these was a time to be overextended, this is it."
I agree with him completely. I know what it means to be over-extended all too well. Recently [...]
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Do you have problems finding focus in your work? Some provoking thoughts from Hannah Morgan.
Focus can be short, clumps of time, when you work exclusively on one project, idea, campaign, target. This prevents the need to switch back and forth between different and frequently unrelated thoughts.
Certainly a challenge for me – as Barrie will [...]
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