Comments on: Portfolio Workers on the march http://blog.worknouveau.com/2009/02/17/portfolio-workers-on-the-march/ Impacts of technology on work and society Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nobuko Sarris http://blog.worknouveau.com/2009/02/17/portfolio-workers-on-the-march/#comment-41 Nobuko Sarris Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:19:49 +0000 http://blog.worknouveau.com/?p=163#comment-41 I really enjoyed this! I would have to say this is an very informative post that deserves mentioning elsewhere. This is for 2 types of people:current writers who are considering a another position,and people trying to select to become a writer. I really enjoyed this! I would have to say this is an very informative post that deserves mentioning elsewhere. This is for 2 types of people:current writers who are considering a another position,and people trying to select to become a writer.

]]> By: Ian Culpin http://blog.worknouveau.com/2009/02/17/portfolio-workers-on-the-march/#comment-10 Ian Culpin Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:00:46 +0000 http://blog.worknouveau.com/?p=163#comment-10 Hi Freddie, It would be interesting to run a poll on this, just to see the diversity of working portfolios out-there. Hmm think I'll set that up. Ian Hi Freddie,
It would be interesting to run a poll on this, just to see the diversity of working portfolios out-there. Hmm think I’ll set that up.
Ian

]]> By: Freddie Dawkins http://blog.worknouveau.com/2009/02/17/portfolio-workers-on-the-march/#comment-9 Freddie Dawkins Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:10:49 +0000 http://blog.worknouveau.com/?p=163#comment-9 Ian - Well put. After years of commuting and stress, I walked away to lead a simple life, freelancing. Ha! It's hard work being simple (no pun necessary!). But you are, I believe, correct in saying this is no passing thing. Maybe, because we are of an age to remember the Fifties but enjoyed the Sixties and Seventies (rather too much..), we have a unique view of work/life balance. It's amazing to me how people now pop-up from the past, because we have the web and the networking sites, and I see very talented professionals doing what would have been considered very "alternative" and "freaky" not so long ago. Yet these colleagues and friends all still earn a living from their mainstream talents, yet also derive income and great pleasure from quite different pursuits. In the past 10 years, I've been a publisher, an editor, an IT researcher, an organic chicken egg farmer, a smallholder with my own sheep and pigs, and a part-time gamekeeper. All very different, and all great fun and learning new skills, and partaking of physical work, rather than tapping away at a keyboard. Can we sustain such diversity in these hard-pressed times? I think we must. I believe diversity and life balance are now at the top of many personal agendas - and it's a good thing. Freddie Ian -

Well put. After years of commuting and stress, I walked away to lead a simple life, freelancing. Ha! It’s hard work being simple (no pun necessary!).

But you are, I believe, correct in saying this is no passing thing. Maybe, because we are of an age to remember the Fifties but enjoyed the Sixties and Seventies (rather too much..), we have a unique view of work/life balance.

It’s amazing to me how people now pop-up from the past, because we have the web and the networking sites, and I see very talented professionals doing what would have been considered very “alternative” and “freaky” not so long ago. Yet these colleagues and friends all still earn a living from their mainstream talents, yet also derive income and great pleasure from quite different pursuits.

In the past 10 years, I’ve been a publisher, an editor, an IT researcher, an organic chicken egg farmer, a smallholder with my own sheep and pigs, and a part-time gamekeeper. All very different, and all great fun and learning new skills, and partaking of physical work, rather than tapping away at a keyboard.

Can we sustain such diversity in these hard-pressed times? I think we must. I believe diversity and life balance are now at the top of many personal agendas – and it’s a good thing.

Freddie

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