Book available January 20th!
You did everything right. So Why does work feel SO WRONG?
Ditch the corporate ladder and reinvent your career on your terms.
POLYWORKER
pol-ee-wur-ker · noun
Someone who’s abandoned corporate
ascension to build a career on their terms.
★★★★★
“Sharp, funny, and unsparring about the illusions of modern work.”
Polyworker traces one millennial’s collapse of faith in Corporate America—and her earnest search for a new way forward. Part cultural reckoning, part personal upheaval, part guide, this book offers a radically honest look at why traditional careers are failing us, and a darkly hilarious account of what it’s really like to polywork your way toward creative sovereignty.
"Eat, Pray, Love meets Fleabag in a WeWork"... "told with the humor of someone who still needs to pay their rent."
- ChatGPT
The Reviews Are In. . .
(Because nothing says “buy my book” like aggressively biased praise.)
Top review
"I told you before: it wasn’t personal 🙄."
- Trish from HR
"Five stars!… Although I think I am legally required to say that.”
- My adoring husband
"This book made me want to Marie Kondo the dumpster fire that is my work life.”
- My best friend (probably)
“The only book I’ve finished reading this year. (Don’t tell my book club!)
- My trauma bonded coworker
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.
About the book
Ever wondered whether trading your dignity, sense of self, and every free hour of your time was really worth it for the free salad Thursdays, a logoed water bottle, and the illusion of job security?
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"I've never laughed this hard reading a business book. I laughed, I cried, I felt seen while reading."
Renee Frojo
Founder, A Good Reputation -
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"Polyworker is for anyone grieving a corporate identity and reimagining what a regenerative, self-authored career can look like for themselves.”
Julie Fedele
Founder, The Portfolio Career Club
About the author
Product strategist by training.
Portfolio careerist by design.
Brie Abramowicz is an indie author, product strategist, coach, and future of work sensemaker. After her tech employer magnanimously restructured her life as well as their org chart, she rebuilt her career from the ground up. Then turned her hard-won insight (read: existential crisis) into a practice helping other professionals do the same.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two cats. When she’s not busy flagging the emergency exit for people fleeing outdated career models, you can find her adventuring through the Puget Sound, cozying up with a good book, or being lovingly grounded by Momo & Stout (who remind her that naps by the fire are also part of the future of work).
*The author, not the cheese.
Ready to
Parachuting off the corporate ladder faster than you can say let’s circle back? Brie’s here to give you a soft landing. Learn more about how to work with her to launch your own portfolio career.