The Multi-Hyphen Method: The Sunday Times business bestseller

We can experiment, take risks, try something for almost nothing and the world will not crumble if it doesn’t work because we can try these things alongside our jobs. But the point remains that we are all free to have a go.

An article in Quartz said that ‘Millennials didn’t invent the second job, they just branded it.’11 People have always had multiple jobs, but the millennial generation, who are mostly told ‘You can be whatever you want to be!’ are freaked out by the hierarchy and the slow pace of the workplace and are using side-hustles to get ahead.

knew I wanted to design a lifestyle that worked for me and not necessarily climb the traditional ladder striving for promotion after promotion and feeling deflated at the end. I wanted to make sure I was having fun and fulfilling myself as I grew along the way.

you have to become good at one thing, and then another thing, and figure out where those two skills intersect to add more value to your company.4

Because of serious topics like student debts and a housing crisis that affects an entire generation, I didn’t think of my career in a linear way because I knew I wouldn’t have the same trajectory as my baby-boomer parents.

The future looks unpredictable, so how can we pretend that sitting at a nine-to-five desk is stable or secure? We are all entrepreneurs now. The very meaning and idea of what an entrepreneur is has changed (it’s not just people in Silicon Valley, it’s you, it’s me, it’s anyone sat at their kitchen table

Bloomberg recently revealed that once you are over thirty-five you’re more likely to hate your job.

Gen Z have seen these niche careers unfold and they have seen that good money can be made and that you can use a platform to make a difference.

The benefits of figuring out your definition of success and writing them down enables you to feel secure in your own personal definition that won’t match anyone else’s like for like.