What Are Some Interdisciplinary/Multipod-Friendly Fields?

Teaching sure has its merits for multipotentialites, but doing it fulltime also comes with a major downside: it’s so incredibly energy draining that you rarely get around to follow your own dreams by the side.

I do enjoy many parts of it, that’s true. Especially inquiry based learning/teaching is perfect for multipotentialites, with it being based on the students’ own questions (which means you often have to learn new things right along with them!). But still… I’d be ever so happy to take that necessary pay-cut if I could find a school where they’d be open to letting me teach primary part time instead of the standard full time requirement. Leaving me the energy to explore all those other things I always want to do and never get around to. To the point that I’ve seriously been looking at getting out of the schoolworld altogether.
The question remains though: what else should I do? Classic multipotentialite dilemma: there is so much I would want to do, that I don’t know where to start… or start half-heartedly on many different tracks at the same time.

One thing I really miss doing was volunteering as a staff member for an annual, multi-cultural event of sorts back when I still lived in Alaska. Yes, I know, you cannot make a living off of volunteering. But I assumed many different roles as I volunteered for this organization and it is still one of the better decisions I made as a young adult.

While volunteering with this organization, I:
managed social media accounts and generated content
recruited and managed volunteers
helped acquire sponsorship
took meeting minutes
acted as an editor
conducted public outreach (in person, not just through social media)

All of the above I did ahead of time in order to prepare our annual event. When the event actually happened, I also ran my own small events in addition to managing our volunteers.

So…I am a person that has majored in just about everything…I wanted to be a vet, but found out I like working with animals and not on them….but still liked the medical field…so I am a registered nurse, a dog trainer, and now going for my nurse practitioner. But now I also have become interested in alternative medicine. So I am now certified in alternative medicine…so my plan is integrating a place for holistic health for people and pets!

Hmmm…also almost had a minor in psychology and math.

I do foresight — creating possible scenarios for the future for organizations large (UN) and small (company) to better prepare for a changing world (or change the world themselves).
It’s an emerging field that many companies are beginning to realize that they are in dire need of.

To be good at it you Must be a multipotentialite because the world 20 years from now is not the present world extrapolated into the future.. but TRANSFORMED by the confluence of transformations in demographics, culture, technology, and economy. To come up with both provocative yet plausible scenarios you MUST have a solid grasp on how the world works — how all the forces aforementioned INTERSECT (yes I know you guys love that word).

Find me on linkedIn if you wanna chat more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgewang89

Hey! I’m also in Futures Studies which is a multidisciplinary field and perfect for a multipotentialite.

Hi everyone!!! I am so glad to have found out about Puttylike!! (Thank you, TEDx!!!)

Personally, my multipotentiality has somehow been my struggle for the past three years that I’ve been in college. Back in high school, it was a bit easier to be interested in several fields. But now, because I grew to be much more passionate about these different fields that when it comes to the battle of science versus the arts, I feel that I am “torn between two lovers”, if you may (Haha!), having to choose between following one or the other.

For now, I’m just trying to graduate with my degree (Behavioral Sciences), which I think would be very helpful as a potential entrepreneur, as a multipotentialite, or even simply as me. 🙂

I would also like to ask you all for some help though! 😀 I am currently trying to focus my study towards this phenomenon of multipotentiality. Would anyone here know of any studies, journal articles, books, etc regarding multipotentiality that I could read about? I can’t seem to find any on the internet. 🙁 At least, not much of what my school has available. Not much open-access journals that I saw either. (And I can’t afford most of the journals I’ve been seeing. 🙁 ) I’m also trying to read about somehow related topics like career development, job specialization, etc.

Any information you could share would be great! Thank you everyone, and have a great day! <3

This is the first time I’m writing something, so yay!
I’ll keep it short and authentic by sticking to what I’ve personally done:
1) Biomedical Engineering: where I come from you have two major options for academics: engineering and natural sciences. Electrical engineering was agonizing and boring until I came across bioengineering which united both fields. You get to learn how to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct like an engineer whilst exploring the wonders of biology, nature and the human body.

2) Network/Multilevel Marketing: although many people oppose it, I’ve found this line of work to go way beyond being an overly-insistent salesperson. If done right, a new recruit must be trained, sent out into the field to put what he/she’s learned into practice and enlist others to do the same. Achieving success requires studying many different topics (sales, marketing, economics, effective communication,…), working well in a team and leading others in their pursuit as well.

3) Tour Guide/Organizer: think of a good guide and you’ll envision him/her as knowledgeable, resourceful and skilled at travel. Right! But guide’s who handle groups also need social skills to bond with them, lead them and handle any (reasonable) request that they might have. Not to mention they have to deal with all sorts of people who aren’t their clients: drivers, hotel staff, administrative staff, etc.