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- Aaron Downes
- Hi, I'm Aaron I live in Dublin. I am married and have two beautiful daughters. I like to run with 4 marathons under my belt to date. I spend my days running Sales Development for MENA and Emerging Markets. My spare time with my family and pounding the pavements. My Challenge in 2015 is to run a total of 2015 miles. I have a pretty cool plan in place. My intention is to build a level of endurance and strength to compete in an ultra race in 2016.
One of the main reasons why more and more people work from home and also choose to have a portfolio career. I am somewhat biased as I have just written a book on portfolio careers, “And What Do You Do?: 10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career”, A&C Black. What my co-author, Katie Ledger and I have found from interviewing a large selection of portfolio workers is that hardly any would even consider returning to what I call a single track career. They actually report feeling more secure in a recession as they are not reliant on only one job. Attitudes towards this growing phenomenon amongst employers are proving fascinating. Even the CBI in a recent report say that our concepts of work and employment are going to have to change with organisations relying more on a small core workforce supplemented by an army of temporary or project workers. Portfolio workers typically are self motivated, self starters and reliable. They have to be as they will not survive unless they are excellent time managers and organisers. They will be increasingly attractive as employees. We are just beginning a programme of interviewing a wide range of employers to check out their attitudes to this growing group of workers. We reckon that there are already over a million of us. Yes – we are portfolio workers too! Follow our project on www.portfoliocareers.net
ReplyDeleteColourful illustration of 'Quality Time' that Scott Adam's recently blogged about - http://dynamicwork.co.uk/blogs/dynamicwork/archive/2010/01/29/quality-time.aspx.
ReplyDeleteBarrie I would like to learn more about your interviews with employers, my aim is to introduce as many employers to our network as possible to create connections for portfolio workers, I also suggest reading Dan Pink's Free Agent Nation.
ReplyDeleteBruce nice link to Scott Adams Blog, Thanks