The portfolio life : how to future-proof your career, avoid burnout, and build a life bigger than your business card / Christina Wallace.
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TextPublisher: New York : Balance, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538710470
- 1538710471
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
You are more than your job. Optimize your happiness, bank account, personal growth, with this practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance--perfect for readers of The Good Enough Job and What Color Is Your Parachute?
"An actionable guide to leading a balanced life." -- Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again
Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents' advice to focus on one career path? It doesn't work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a global pandemic (to name a few). We need a dramatically different relationship with work, one that allows us to define ourselves beyond our paid labor.
The answer? A Portfolio Life. An anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work-life balance, a Portfolio Life is built on three tenets: You are more than any one role or opportunity. Diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty. When (not if) your needs change, you can and should rebalance.
In The Portfolio Life , Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace adapts tried-and-true practices from the business sector to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the process of designing a strategy for the long haul. Because you deserve rest, relationships, and a rewarding career--not someday, but today . After all, you only live once.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Having one full-time job is the riskiest career move you can make; we need a new path to design sustainable, future-proof, fulfilling lives that doesn't tie our identities and livelihoods to our jobs. In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace delivers a model for thriving amidst the constant disruptions of the 21st century. Adapting tried-and-true practices from the business sector, Christina makes Portfolio Living accessible and actionable for all readers through tools like her Balanced Scorecard, 100 Wishes Assessment, time optimization benchmarks, and more. Make no mistake, Portfolio Living isn't about the future of work-this is the present of work. It grants you permission to step back from the cult of ambition and define your life beyond just your paid labor. It's the chance to live a life where you feel secure and fulfilled today, not someday, and design a satisfying, flexible path for the long haul. After all, you only live once"-- Provided by publisher.