THE ME CORPORATION CC - Pretoria

After having worked in the corporate sector for many years, I decided in 2001 to resign and to start up my own consultancy. This was driven by my need to aspire to a new life style where I would have a greater say in my own life journey and which would provide me with the wonderful freedom to pursue several job-type activities (without being limited to a one career path), whilst at the same time being able to devote significant time and energy to other non-work related interests. I have since come to realize that many people have this dream of a greater freedom of choice and wanting a strong say in creating a work / life balance tailor made for their specific needs. In fact, there is a specific term for this preferred type of lifestyle, it is defined as “a Portfolio Life”. This  

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concept was coined by the business guru Professor Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason in 1989 who explained this approach as follows: “If, rather than think of life as work and leisure, we think of it as a portfolio of activities - some of which we do for money, some for interest, some for pleasure, some for a cause - that way, we do not have to look for the occupation that miraculously combines job satisfaction, financial reward and pleasant friends all in one package. As with any portfolio we get different returns from different parts and if one fails the whole is not ruined.” This makes wonderful sense to me!