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 When it comes to building a meaningful career, which is to pick a profession, land a dream job based on that and work hard to be successful in your life. 

Everyone does the same, picks a profession, lands a job and that's a a dream come true. 

Studies shows that even though not in more than 6 months, they find themselves reckless, so they try a different thing, and make themselves happier. 

For that they are being told that they are confused, mistaken in life. 

The day you expand your roles, shift yourself from a single dream job to multiple roles, you find yourself more happy, focused and more clear. 

In 1994, Charles Hanley introduced a term called 

Portfolio Career

someone who purses multiple jobs at one time.

In comparison to a traditional career which followed a single path, Portfolio career includes full-time roles, part-time roles, freelance jobs, short-term gigs, passion projects, personal businesses. This will lead you to a never ending fulfillment and happy journey. 

Building portfolio career is an interesting thing but it is much difficult as to set priorities, it also requires time management skills, because if you don't plan it can come to you at a higher cost, and your future can be in a big danger. That is why more than building portfolio career, managing it is more difficult. 

Amongst its lots of benefits we would like to state three key benefits of building a portfolio career.

1. Increases Happiness - A research by MBO Partners shows that 79% of people are reported more happier than the ones who have a traditional career.

2. Unlocks Innovations - Flowers practice cross-pollination. Different species of flowers pollinate with each other which comes out to be a beautiful flower. Likewise, in your career you can also connect your different roles with each other to create an innovation, which is called cross-industrial innovations.

3. Future-proof your career - As you perform a job, you invest your time and money. We all saw during pandemic, the most secure jobs were at risk. Building a portfolio career will allow you to easily switch between different roles.

When we have a lot of interests, and we are asked to choose a traditional career path, we have to choose a single interest which is filtered out of all other interests, which leads to less happiness and makes feel strain.

So, whether you're going to build a career, or whether you're deep into it, performing full time roles or part time roles, if it doesn't fulfill you then building a portfolio career is most probably the answer you're searching for.