From the course: Building a Portfolio Career: Diversify Your Income and Do More of What You Love
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A Real-Life Portfolio Career
From the course: Building a Portfolio Career: Diversify Your Income and Do More of What You Love
A Real-Life Portfolio Career
- I spoke with several portfolio careerists while preparing this course so I could understand the different ways things came together for different people. Everyone had such diverse and interesting stories, including Jennifer Bangoura, whose story I will share here. Jennifer, thank you so much for joining us from Malawi. - Yeah, thank you for having me. - So you and I chatted a short time ago. I know a bit about your portfolio career, but I'm curious, what prompted you to first start a portfolio career? - So my portfolio career really started accidentally over 10 years ago when I was working in a grants and finance position and I had these creative urges that I really couldn't scratch or satisfy with my nine to five job. And so I had friends who kept telling me, "You're such a good photographer. "You should take up photography. "You should write." And I paid attention and I started looking for opportunities around…
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