We’ve been hearing for a long time about how the future will require us all to have ‘portfolio careers’. Our kids are less likely to be applying for jobs and more likely to be bidding for contracts. I speak from personal experience, here. At the time of writing, both my sons are in their mid-twenties, and both bid for IT-related contracts on a variety of auction sites. In order to try to understand how much the labour market was changing, I visited one of the sites they are registered with. I’d strongly recommend that you do too, because here’s where you’ll find the future, except it’s
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