How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

Moreover, our culture of specialization conflicts with something most of us intuitively recognize, but which career advisers are only beginning to understand: we each have multiple selves. … We have complex, multi-faceted experiences, interests, values and talents, which might mean that we could also find fulfillment as a web designer, or a communi... See more

Daniel Pink, in his book Free Agent Nation, noted that America's career landscape was changing and would soon be dominated by freelancers or portfolio careerists. Bill Bridges' book Jobshift argued along similar lines, Marci Alboher's One Person/Multiple Careers highlighted this growing trend among normal people in the United States and more recent

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Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.

Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more