Welcome to Litsy!

It took me a while to finish this one as I went through each chapter very intentionally and working at most of the exercises. This book isn‘t only for people with physical portfolios relevant to their work, but for anyone who is multifaceted and multidimensional. Wallace tackles everything you might think of and more in order to help you juggle your many professional goals, and she takes your personal life into account as well. Continued ⬇️

“But how can you know for certain what your work is worth? It‘s simple: You‘ve got to start talking about money. With your friends. With your colleagues. Even with your competition.”

My Sunny boy is thinking about building a portfolio for his life too… he‘d like 80% of his time to go to eating, 10% to sleeping, 5% to terrorizing his sister Midnight, and 5% to zoomies in the middle of the night. 🤪

#CatsOfLitsy

“…our future happiness would depend so much more on the choices we would make every day about where to invest our time, how to prioritize an infinite number of responsibilities, and the seemingly impossible trade-offs we would need to make, than on our ability to rise to the top job in our field.”

100 sticky notes for the “100 wishes” exercise. Can you tell I‘m taking this seriously? Lol

As I started reading the first few chapters, I pretty much already knew what was going to be in my Venn Diagram, but I did the work to be sure. Upon working out my categories for what I‘m interested in, passionate about, and already working on; I discovered not only validation for my current path but whole new possibilities for creating my own opportunities. I‘m so excited and loving this book!

Late night session because I have to stay awake (have to pick up my oldest from her gradventure field trip).

“Rather than beating himself up for falling short, Jason exhibited the quintessential growth mindset: assuming that just because his ability was inadequate at present didn‘t mean he couldn‘t develop it eventually.”

I‘ve never found footnotes more entertaining lol

“There‘s no contradiction in being a complex, multidimensional human. When it comes to your identity, think ‘and‘ not ‘or.‘”

This resonates so much. I‘ve studied writing, health administration, graphic design and illustration… and always felt like I needed to focus more and place myself in a tidy little box. People tend to think I‘m flakey and indecisive, but I‘m simply multidisciplinary and have a love of learning. This book is validating so much for me already…

“…Derek cautions, ‘to be a workist is to worship a god with firing power.‘.. Don‘t leave your identity in someone else‘s hands.”

“And after surviving a global pandemic, many younger and mid-career workers came to the same realization all at once: As much as you might love your work, work won‘t love you back.”

Only 10 pages in and I‘m already getting hit with some hard-hitting truths about the systems we‘re currently surviving in. The world we live in now is definitely not the same as the one our grandparents (and even our parents) were navigating.

Time for some nonfiction, and this one seems perfect for what I‘m focusing on these days…

Okay, my TBR pile is outta control. I have a problem lol. But I couldn‘t resist this one seeing as I just graduated, I‘m currently looking for work, and building my portfolio. It definitely intrigued me.