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The future of work is going to end up being a lot more zigzaggy even within industries, within organizations.

This ladder up and to the right, it just doesn't exist anymore.

So how can you think about offering growth or opportunity to your team?

Exciting career changes could be in your future, but what does that mean for your wealth?

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Hey, everyone, I'm Jean Chatsky.

Thank you so much for joining me today on her money.

You know, on this podcast, one of my very favorite things to do is to dive into the pathway toward building long-term wealth.

And if you're a regular listener, you have probably heard me talk about the importance of diversifying your investment portfolio.

It is the best way, historically, to reduce your risk of losing money while still being able to reap the rewards of the stock market.

But on today's show, we're going to talk about the value of diversifying a different kind of portfolio, your career portfolio.

Unlike in the stock market, we're often told in our careers that we should be focusing our efforts on a single job or a single field of work.

If you are supposed to go to school, pick something that you want to study that is going to define your career and then work your way up in the same industry until you make it to the top.

Life doesn't usually turn out to be so straightforward.

I think I'm exhibit a of that you might get laid off.

You might take a break to raise your kids.

So that career that you chose in your early 20s doesn't really match up with who you are in your 40s or your 50s.

And my guest today argues that in all of those instances, you can reduce risk or even profit by having different kinds of work experience in your portfolio.

Christina Wallace has worked as a theater director, a nonprofit arts administrator, a tech entrepreneur, a writer, and most recently a lecturer at Harvard Business School.

And over the course of her career, she realized that having all of these different jobs wasn't a weakness. It was actually a strength.

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