Apparently, a multi-hyphenate is someone who does lots of things, and has lots of hyphens in their job title. For example, I am a futures facilitator-science communicator-storyteller-sustainability chamption-educator-trainer-workshop designer-urban walker-artist. Am I a specialist who specialises in many things? Am I, as Marie Forleo says, “Multi-passionate”? These are all quite positive.
Perhaps others might describe me as a dilettante (not positive in today’s world – a person who “dabbles” in an art or a field of knowledge), or a generalist (also not a high-paying job description).
Frankly, I love the diversity of what I do, and how they interconnect. I’d rather say that my approach to work has mostly advantages and few disadvantages, much like the “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” (egg-laying-wool-milk-pig), which in German refers to an imaginary farm animal first mentioned in a poem, which as a hybrid creature combines the advantages of different animal species, namely from chicken (laying eggs), sheep (delivering wool), cow (giving milk) and pig (meat).
Yup, I’m special. Practically mythical.
