The portfolio lifestyle as discussed on Mnet’s Carte Blanche on Sunday describes the lifestyle of those who derive an income from multiple sources whilst living their dream. They discussed how the previous secure corporate jobs were no longer able to offer the security once assumed by career veterans. Over 1 million jobs were lost in 2001 with now 1:6 adults out of work.

We at the Entrepreneur Incubator often engage with people who are looking to start a new career after being ejected out of the corporate world. The key here is to know what you are good at and create a series of income streams related to those talents and skills.

The show interviewed some local business people who live their dream, Ashley Hayden and Musa Kalenga, both live a life of different job functions, multiple incomes, and a varied lifestyle. But their careers have been built around themselves and not a product or someone else’s dream. They have done the work to know who they are and what they are good at, this then becomes their offering.

So if you want to join the new elite of Portfolio Entrepreneurs, stop and ask yourself, what am I good at that others would pay for? Then do it.