The Cynical Girl: The Myths Of A Portfolio Career

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The Myths Of A Portfolio Career Posted: 03 Oct 2012 03:45 AM PDT It’s very trendy and dreamy to have a portfolio career like mine. You get a little money here, a little money there. You get to make the rules and wear yoga pants. All of that is true, but the biggest sham of the early 21st century is that being your own boss means that you can do innovative, entrepreneurial things. Sometimes you can; however, sometimes being your own boss and working three part time jobs with clients — instead of one full-time job — makes you average and boring. It’s tough to be innovative when you are hustling for your next client. It is difficult to be entrepreneurial when you have to bill and hound clients — like a collection agency — and asked to be paid for services rendered 90 days ago. It’s tough to be strategic when you don’t have income for 90 days and then hit the jackpot in one month. And while it’s great to be your own boss, it is also a myth. When you have clients, you have bosses. A smart entrepreneur can manage the hassles of running a solo business in simple and easy ways: Hire a good accountant, tap into existing small business services to manage invoicing and billing, or create a fabulous network that generates leads without requiring an investment of time and capital. But it’s still a hustle, baby, and not for the faint of heart. Me? I will always have something on the side even when I have a full-time job. I like to spread my risk. This is why I speak, write and work on fun projects even though I’m on a monthly retainer with The Starr Conspiracy. And it’s not all that risky for me because I have a spouse who has a traditional job. We don’t have children. We keep it relatively simple. But this life isn’t for everyone and I sometimes wonder why I didn’t apply this entrepreneurial thinking into my early HR career. What might have happened with my career had I started acting like a consultant long before I was a consultant? And what if you took that same spirit and applied it to your existing job? How might your career be different and better? If you have a job and dream of life as a consultant and entrepreneur, start there and try to apply that hermeneutic to your existing job. Just a small shift in your attitude and approach might save your career. It might also save your regular, reliable paycheck.

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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

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• A complete solution for oil-spill cleanup
• Graphene nanopores can be controlled: Less costly ways of sequencing DNA
• NASA's infrared observatory measures expansion of universe
• Surprising black hole discovery changes picture of globular star clusters
• Sea urchin's spiny strength revealed
• New 3-D camera for space missions

A complete solution for oil-spill cleanup Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills -- a super-absorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil.

Graphene nanopores can be controlled: Less costly ways of sequencing DNA Posted: 03 Oct 2012 11:14 AM PDT Engineers have used advanced techniques to make the material graphene small enough to read DNA. Shrinking the size of a graphene pore to less than one nanometer opens the possibility of graphene as a low-cost tool to sequence DNA.

NASA's infrared observatory measures expansion of universe Posted: 03 Oct 2012 10:48 AM PDT Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.

Surprising black hole discovery changes picture of globular star clusters Posted: 03 Oct 2012 10:21 AM PDT An unexpected discovery is forcing scientists to rethink their understanding of the environment in globular star clusters, tight-knit collections containing hundreds of thousands of stars. The astronomers were studying a globular cluster called Messier 22 (M22), a group of stars more than 10,000 light-years from Earth. They hoped to find evidence of a rare type of black hole in the cluster's center called an intermediate-mass black hole, which is more massive than those larger than the Sun's mass, but smaller than the supermassive black holes found at the cores of galaxies. However, they found something very surprising - two smaller black holes, which is unusual because most theorists say there should be at most one black hole in the cluster.

Sea urchin's spiny strength revealed Posted: 03 Oct 2012 06:46 AM PDT For the first time, a team of Australian engineers has modelled the microscopic mechanics of a sea urchin's spine, gaining insight into how these unusual creatures withstand impacts in their aquatic environment.

New 3-D camera for space missions Posted: 03 Oct 2012 05:25 AM PDT A new 3-D camera has been developed for space missions. Researchers are now completing a study identifying alternatives to the cameras currently deployed on spacecrafts and space rovers.

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