Welcome to “So, What Do You Do?”
So, What Do You Do? is a newsletter that explores how individuals with many interests (“multipotentialites”) earn through more than one income stream (“portfolio work”), while navigating careers without obvious progression pathways (“squiggly careers”).
Together, I believe this WHO, WHAT and WHERE defines the future of careers for Gen Z. So, through personal experience, interviews and research I’ve made it my mission to learn, document and explain how each of us can thrive in this new, constantly changing world of work.
Why join 800 other subscribers?
Fortnightly on Fridays at 6am you’ll receive a totally free newsletter in your inbox on the following topics:
🎤 Career Portraits - the stories, challenges and lessons from my interviews with individuals who live and breathe the new model of careers.
🔨 Principles - the practical themes I identify across my interviews, research and personal experience that you can implement into your own career.
📖 Diaries - the reflections on my own career milestones as I implement my own advice first-hand and share the results with you.
And in the archives you’ll also find legacy posts that explore the skills and theories you’ll need to master your working life.
So, What Do I Do?
Good question. Here’s my current answer…
I do a few things. All focused on the future of careers.
Specifically, I work four days a week as a Founders Associate at The Portfolio Collective where we help 10,000+ members create thriving portfolio careers, earning through more than one source of income.
On my 5th, 6th and 7th day I also build the Undefinable Community, a collection of 40+ multipotentialites who see themselves as more than just their occupational label and come together to collectively empower each individual’s creativity, authenticity and capability. We do wholesome weekend retreats, co-working days and monthly reflections. It’s pretty cool.
And I share everything I learn about all the people I meet and my own experiences through public speaking for organisations, creating content for my 10k LinkedIn followers and writing a newsletter called “So, What Do You Do?” to my 800+ weekly readers.
All while juggling my career as an endurance athlete, where I placed 33/1115 at Ironman UK and 396/3935 at Ironman 70.3 World Champions in 2023 and am currently training to go sub 2h 30m at the London Marathon in April 2024.
In short, I believe I’m living the future of careers. And I want to help you do the same. By empowering you with the frameworks, skills and mental models to succeed as an individual with many interests.
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Great, but where do you start?
I’ve written over 100 posts here since I first launched this newsletter back in March 2022 so I’ll forgive you for not knowing where to start.
Generally my writing has only improved over time so the latest posts are often my best ones. However, that being said, I do occasionally write a post that I’m particularly proud of that I like to still point new readers to.
Here are three of them to get you started:
