Web 2.0 Is Spawning Portfolio Careers
Posted on September 6, 2006
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It’s an issue that has been creeping up on those of use who read Charles Handy’s business books a decade ago and wondered: Yes, when can I do that. The idea that your career is not in the hands of somebody else (editor, manic boss, ego-driven manager, a dynamic culture etc). And it seems like the portfolio career suddenly arrived.
A variety of people I’ve visited, on the web, over the past week hang out a shill with numerous roles and companies listed.
Mary K. Williams, a feature editor at Hot-Psychology, is also a critic at blogcritics, and is involved in the mondo project.
Aaron Swartz, who featured a couple of days ago here, works at Reddit, is standing for election to Wikipedia, earns from his website, and works at web.py as well as promoting the Markdown langauge.
And look at the portfolio of a guy like Chris Messina.
And you regularly read people these days describing themselves as serial entrepreneurs. For my part I write for the Irish Times, have written for the Times in London but find it too much of a pain, have a couple of website launches coming up and have a magazine project I’m working on. I just started to file a couple of things with blog critics to get the blog traffic up, hopefully to spin an ad income and there’s a few other things going on.
I might try affiliate-type projcets - though I like burnlounge it’s probably not for me - but if Amazon began rewarding reviewers I might go there.
It’s no road to riches but it feels better than the commute and interminable meetings. And because of its desirability my guess is Web 2.0 applications will take us further along the road to securing our portfolios with an adequate income.
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