A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD BOOK FOR MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALSYou did everything “right”.
And yet you're still feeling restless, burnt out,
and wondering if this is really it for your career.
A radically honest memoir and career manifesto for highly creative, wickedly talented professionals that are ready to get out of the rut they’re in and finally start building a multi-faceted career that matches their life.
In 2023, Brie Abramowicz was swept up in a company restructure and shoved off the hamster wheel—only to discover that Corporate America wasn’t going to catch her.
Polyworker tells the story—in darkly funny and painfully familiar detail—of what happens when a millenial over achiever loses the job she built her life around, and is forced to confront the terrifying possibility that maybe it was never a life at all.
What follows is a series of experiments that lead her somewhere unexpected: building a portfolio career!
Both a mirror and a map, Polyworker captures a generation’s disillusionment with traditional 9-to-5 careers and their attraction to a provocative alternative : a multidimensional, self-authored way of working built on curiosity, adaptability, and creativity.
Ever wondered whether trading your dignity, sense of self, and every hour of your time was really worth the free salad Thursdays, a logoed water bottle, and the illusion of job security?
In 2023, Brie Abramowicz was swept up in a company restructure and shoved off the hamster wheel—only to discover that Corporate America wasn’t going to catch her.
Polyworker tells the story—in darkly funny and painfully familiar detail—of what happens when a millennial over achiever loses the job she built her life around, and is forced to confront the terrifying possibility that maybe it was never a life at all. What follows is a series of experiments that eventually lead her somewhere unexpected: building a portfolio career.
Both a mirror and a map, Polyworker captures a generation’s disillusionment with traditional careers and attraction to a provocative alternative : a multidimensional, self-authored way of working built on curiosity, adaptability, and creative sovereignty.
What you CAN EXPECT
By READING POLYWORKER…
Not a neat and tidy five-step plan!
Not a sugar coated success story!
Just an honest account of what it’s really like to blow up your career on purpose and build a portfolio career piece by piece.
WALK AWAY WITH….
Words to describe the disillusionment you’re feeling and a sense of relief.
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That low-grade dread on Sunday night? This book gives you language to metabolize this soup of emotions (which turns out to be the very first step toward doing something about it!).
A clear eyed diagnosis of the problem with 9-to-5 work.
02
I help you separate what's actually yours to own from what's structural. (Trust me, once you see it clearly, you can't unsee this!)
An unfiltered, laugh out loud look at what the first year of polyworking is really like.
03
I take you through my own journey of getting going: from my disillusionment to the early excitement. I share how I navigated the fears and imposter sydrome, the income gaps, and the moments where I wasn’t sure if I was making the right calls.
Over 48 pages of simple exercises that’ll help you immediately kickstart your own portfolio career.
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Start building your first experiment or income stream as soon as you finish reading the book! Get your hands on my completely free workbook that is chock full of prompts to surface your vision, potential blockers, and practical business development frameworks to start thinking about how to structure your portfolio. I have even thrown in a free business audit template too!
I usually find BUSINESS books to be a total drag, but this one grabbed me immediately and took me for a ride. Brie is an extraordinary writer.
I laughed out loud (hard enough to snort) and highlighted more sentences than I can count, because her analogies and turns of phrase are just ::chef’s kiss:: so good.
What I especially loved is how clearly the book captures the inner work required to unlearn how so many of us were conditioned to work in Corporate America, and grow into a way of working that actually makes sense for our lives. Brie poignantly explains why 9-to-5 work isn’t working anymore, while offering smart frameworks and real examples for HOW TO WORK DIFFERENTLY. Highly recommend for anyone who’s been successful on paper but feeling lost at the moment.
— Leslie Zaikis
Look, sometimes the only natural next step after publishing a book is to let a group of Brooklyn comedians run wild with the material. So here it is: Dinner for 1’s sketches of two scenes FROM THE BOOK. It's art. It's comedy! (It's late-stage capitalism crying softly in the background on mute!)
PRODUCT STRATEGIST by TRAINING.
PORTFOLIO CAREERIST BY DESIGN.
Hi, I’m Brie. I’ve spent the past three years rebuilding my career from the ground up and turning my own trial and error into a product consulting and advisory practice that helps other creative professionals build their own careers with commas. When I’m not busy flagging the emergency exit for people fleeing
outdated career models, you can find me adventuring throughout the Puget Sound with my husband, reading a good book, or cozying up with my two cats (who remind me regularly that naps by the fire are also a part of the future of work).
*The author, not the cheese.
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