Comments on: The Future Of Work: Portfolio Careers http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/ Sat, 26 May 2012 02:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Laura Brown http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86472 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:44:16 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86472 Delighted to find a new description of the way I’ve been working for awhile now – a portfolio career. I have been a business technology consultant for many years (http://www.systeminnovations.net), and in last 3 years have added nutrition and lifestyle coaching to my portfolio. I also am an organic vegetable grower, and have a small business there. Add several web properties and affiliate relationships and it’s a full portfolio.

How do I manage? that is the tricky part. When I learned in a corporate setting to manage a large and fast-moving technology project, I learned it’s not about controlling everything, but rather harnessing and directing the forces available. That’s what I try to do with emerging tech and opportunities, and sometimes they just take on a life of their own. That’s okay!

Laura

]]> By: Dr Barrie Hopson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86471 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:06:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86471 Delighted to read your observations about portfolio careers and thank you too for highlighting our book ( I wrote this with Katie). We are getting an enormous response to this subject including from the US. The book should be published there in the spring but I see is already on Amazon.com. Do have a look at our new website on this topic and there are already some fascinating discussion topics starting up in our LinkedIn portfolio careers group.

]]> By: Ability: a new form of discrimination? « Even It Up! http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86470 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:02:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86470 [...] portfolio work rather than one full-time [...]

]]> By: Simon Mackie http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86469 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86469 Thanks Corey. Not sure what happened there; it was a problem with the image. I’ve fixed it.

]]> By: Corey http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86468 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:46:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86468 I think you’ve got an extra </div> somewhere in your content. This page is rendering strangely for me in FF 3.5, with the sidebar columns spanning the whole browser width and covering up some of the content.

]]> By: Weekend Blog Roundup: Portfolio Careers, Minimalism and Making $$ on Amazon Associates | ProVirtual Solutions - Mary Motz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86467 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:59:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86467 [...] WebWorkerDaily spotlights a new phenom in the world of career management: portfolio careers.  The idea is that many today (including yours truly) have a work life that consists of a string of loosely related projects that could be described as a portfolio. The post mentions the upcoming book, And What Do You Do?: 10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career by Katie Ledger and Barrie Hopson, in which portfolio workirs are described as “free-range humans“ who are not “penned into an unhappy job-cage.”   Sounds pretty accurate to me.   Check out the full post here. [...]

]]> By: Keoz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/the-future-of-work-portfolio-careers/#comment-86466 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:43:46 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=17817#comment-86466 I think as soon as you specialize in something your portafolio would become more and more interesting to other people as time goes by :) I think everything is about how well you can compete against others with the skills you have earned over time maybe you are not good at something but you rock in other and that’s all you need to keep clients coming :)

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