We set out to talk about portfolio careers: juggling a day job, freelance work, advisory roles, passion projects. Standard stuff, on paper.
But a moment that stuck out was Mickela's account of realising she'd been running a business for years without ever calling it that; managing herself as an author, running her own teaching practice, doing community liaison and admin and not recognising any of it as a transferable skill set because she'd boxed herself in as \"a writer.\"
That's the real case for a portfolio career. It's not just diversified income. It's permission to stop being defined by the first chapter of your CV.