Portfolio Careers (The Pros & Cons of a Portfolio Career)

Portfolio Careers - This video is all about portfolio careers. Portfolio Careers have become more and more prominent for creatives in the industry today. It is when you have multiple income sources, so you could be freelancing, self-employed or working multiple part time jobs. So you could be a producer who also sings, a singer who also plays the drums or an engineer that also does graphic design and marketing.
This video looks at what a portfolio career is, the pros and cons and the need for specialism. It is aimed at beginner home producers, engineers and artists.
Topics and Timings:
1. Intro (0:00 - 1:44)
2. Pro #1 (1:44 - 2:09)
3. Pro #2 (2:09 - 2:36)
4. Pro #3 (2:36 - 3:05)
5. Pro #4 (3:05 - 3:36)
6. Pro #5 (3:36 - 4:00)
7. Con #1 (4:00 - 4:24)
8. Con #2 (4:24 - 4:53)
9. Con #3 (4:53 - 5:32)
10. Con #4 (5:32 - 6:07)
11. Con #5 (6:07 - 6:45)
12. The Importance of Specialism (6:45 - 7:34)
13. Final Thoughts (7:34 - 8:24)
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[@zephyrhillmusic]

Really interesting. I hadn't really considered this is what I was in terms of my music career. I do have a day job, but when I started taking my music career seriously I 'decided' I wanted to focus on the songwriter route and not the producer route, BUT what I've found is that I've had to be all kinds of things to make things work and different artists need different input. If I can provide that myself, that is way better. I think we can get scared to dabble in everything and not master anything, but as you say, it's really the only way to be getting anywhere in todays business. I think its good to focus and I've tried to limit to three key things - collaborating with singers / artists, ghost writing (write for hire) and more recently looking to add Creative Direction coaching. Saying that I ended up producing my last collaboration! Thanks again for an informative video.
So if you don't mind me asking - what do you see as your own skill gap that you look elsewhere to get help? Thanks, Hugh

[@HeryusnaYoda]

Yep.. my problem is managing time to do multiple projects..

[@EnejJohhem]

So I was one of them without even knowing it.