The other day I had lunch with the head of a department in a huge corporate company. Turns out he's also in a hot band.

At dinner last night, it turns out one of our friends (finance) wants to get into film production, the other (hedge funds) is thinking of food writing, and the third (fashion) is taking classes in counselling, on the 'side'.

Now multi-tasking is nothing new - I'm an designer/dj/model/musician, dahling - but focused bi-tasking, with the aim of a career change, instead of CV expansion, certainly is. And from last weekend's article in Style, it looks like the time is neigh.

So want to chuck in your day job and do something else, but don't know where to start? We say begin with meshminds.com, which is like a myspace for professionals, who are also moonlighting in other, largely creative industries.

Membership is by invitation, and the main aim is to create a network of likeminded creatives, who support each other's ideas, and 'encourage creative collaboration between the arts and business worlds'.