Marci Alboher - One Person / Multiple Careers

Have you ever said any of the following?

A. I dream of leaving my day jobor at least taking some time offso that I can pursue other passions.

B. Im happiest when Im juggling tasks. Sometimes I do my best thinking when I put a project aside to work on something else for a while.

C. I need a career that engages me fullybut is flexible enough that I can spend time with my family or doing other things that nurture me.

D. I often feel pulled in many directionsnot because I cant focus, but because I have so many interests and ideas.

E. Im comfortable with new beginnings. In fact, if I do the same thing for too long, I become bored by the lack of challenges.

If you agree with one or more of the above statements, a slash career could be right for you. In fact, youre probably already on your way to one. In todays increasingly elastic workplace, people with curiosity, vision, and a streak of independence can reject a conventional joband custom-blend all their skills and interests into the slash careers of their dreams.

For those of us (all of us) who have way more than one goal/passion/talent in life, this is the ultimate guide! Right now youre holding the best advice of more than 100 folks whove done it already. Better get out your thank-you cards, because youll be writing one to Marci Alboher before you finish !

Keith Ferrazzi, CEO/speaker/entrepreneur/author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

A must-read for anyone wanting to successfully navigate multiple callings.

Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

Marci Alboher presents a descriptive and informative picture of a contemporary approach to building a career.... [This book] provides hope, inspiring case studies, and tangible tips for people who want to combine multiple interests and skills into a completely fulfilling career.

Julie Jansen, author of I Dont Know What I Want, But I Know Its Not This and You Want Me to Work with Who?

Written for those people who have multiple skills and interests, ONE PERSON/MULTIPLE CAREERS provides a winning strategy for both surviving and prospering in todays changing economy. A quick and interesting read with plenty of examples, the book will have a long-term impact on those who want to pursue several different careers simultaneously or in quick succession. It will help bring direction and sanity to multitaskers who are skillful at many things and want to figure out how to have it all.

Bill Coplin, author of 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College: The Know-How You Need to Succeed

Your ability to identify and fully exploit all your talents is essential to maximizing your success. This book shows you, step-by-step, how to fulfill your true potential.

Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth

Having multiple occupations is not only feasible but often fulfilling. There are some really interesting stories in here of personal triumph over the mundane and routine.

Abby Wilner, researcher/speaker/webmaster/coauthor of Quarterlife Crisis

Insightful... essential for anyone trying to find time to pursue multiple passions.

Laura Stack, speaker/mom/author of Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It

No one likes to be pigeonholed or put in a box. Marci helps us see that in our quest for fulfillment we can be many different things, all wrapped up in one authentic person!

Rebecca Zucker, founding partner of Next Step Partners

I really like this bookespecially the concrete examples of how The Slash Effect can help you build your own business while maintaining security at the same time. Not only that, Alboher may have cracked the code for how to successfully integrate all our passions into multiple careers in a meaningful and profitable way.

Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients

Marci Alboher is the Walt Whitman of the new world of work. She realizes that we are large, that we contain multitudes. With deftly told stories and plenty of smart advice, Alboher shows how multiple professions and multiple identities can converge into a unifiedand betterlife. If what you do feels out of sync with who you are, this may be the most important book you read this year.

Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive, A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation

This groundbreaking book identifies a new model of work and explains a future thats already arrived.

Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project

If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and reported as unsold and destroyed to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for thisstripped book. Copyright 2007 by Marci AlboherAll rights reserved.

Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any formor by any means, or stored in database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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New York, NY

Original paperback version published by Warner Business Books.
Warner Business Books is an imprint of Warner Books, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America First Edition: February 2007
10 987654321

Updated digital and print editions: February 2012

Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alboher, Marci.One person/multiple careers : a new model for work/life success / index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-69697-5ISBN-10: 0-446-69697-81.
Supplementary employment. 2. Job satisfaction.
I. Title.HD5854.5.A43 2007650.1dc222006019193B

February 2012 Digital Edition
ISBN: 978-0-615-69441-5

CONTENTS

The world has changed dramatically since 2007 when One Person/Multiple Careers was first published. But the book and the ideas in it are more relevant than ever.

Less than two years after the book was released, the economy took its historic nose-dive and slashing became even more prevalent -- but it had a new dimension to it as many were adding a slash by necessity not by choice. The book had a revival as people sought out its lessons as a survival handbook for this new world we found ourselves in. So Im releasing this e-book after countless demands for a digital version.

We are now fully entrenched in what Tina Brown famously named the gig economy and its affecting everyone from young people fresh out of school eager to start their careers to baby boomers who need to work longer because their retirement savings have been decimated.

The explosion of social networking has accelerated the pace at which people can access their networks, spread the word about new ventures, and create an online presence.

Slashing has also taken hold overseas. In recent months Australian Vogue, Le Monde in France, Visao in Portugal, and CHIC in Sweden have interviewed me about the slashing phenomenon as the same factors that helped it bloom in the US have taken hold other places.