If we have 80,000 hours to spend in our career, there's a high chance we're going to try on or evolve into multiple professional identities across that time span, and it's unlikely it will be a linear progression.

Calling someone crossdisciplinary versus interdisciplinary are two very different ways of describing how they work. Why would you want one over the other? These are things that need to be considered in HR hiring decisions and team management practices for the future of work.

Out of 90 votes (and counting) 66% self-identified as being a hybrid professional!

Not every entrepreneur is a hybrid professional (just because they think they are). If an entrepreneur is doing marketing, sales, product development, business development, operations, accounting, graphic design, and countless other jobs, that doesn't mean they call themselves a marketer, salesperson, product developer, operator, graphic designer...you get the point.

Everyone isn't everything. Some people are experts, some are generalists, and some are hybrids.

Hybrid work has become a catchall phrase and even a misnomer for the bigger shifts at play in the workforce. There are three key components underlying the concept of hybrid work. These include: hybrid workplaces, hybrid work (jobs/roles), and hybrid workers. I'll explain each.