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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, the program where we bring you an interesting topic and six items of vocabulary.
I'm Neil.
Today, we're talking about jobs.
And I'm Dan.
And specifically, we're looking at the trend for having more than one job.
Yes, on that note, Dan, will you ever ask this question as a kid,
what do you want to be when you grow up?
Do you remember your answer?
I want it to be a ninja turtle.
And you, doesn't surprise me.
I think I want it to be a professional football.
I want it to play for England.
Well, for many people, that question gets harder.
The older they become.
It's one reason why more and more people have what we call portfolio careers these days, so they can do a bit of everything.
A portfolio, as a noun, means a case for carrying large pictures.
Or it can mean the collection of pictures themselves.
But we also use it as an adjective to describe groups of certain things.