Balancing Multipule Careers? – You’re Not Alone

Check out this 2007 book “One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success“ by Marci Alboher.  It’s available at Your Discount Book Store.com.    More and more folks are in new careers, working in multiple fields and finding life to be much more fulfilling now than in their previous 9-5 gigs.   As one of those people pigeon-holed in the corporate workplace for some 30 years and now balancing 3 or 4 income sources at age 61, I found her book worth the read.

Here’s what  Publishers Weekly had to say in their review.

“For those already slashing through multifaceted professional lives, Alboher’s collection of profiles of people juggling multiple roles may offer the comfort of knowing others are doing the same. For those recently separated from a job or seeking greater fulfillment from life, Alboher’s fascination with people working through dual existences may reveal an alternate path to success. Like the psychotherapist/violin maker she interviews, Alboher has abandoned an easily described career as an attorney to become a journalist, author, speaker and writing coach. Her book is less about making career changes than changing how one defines a career and making adjustments for a more satisfying life. After focusing a bit too intently on how multilayered careers get their start, she segues into more action-oriented advice, including experimenting with different identities before making career-altering changes; how to keep income flowing; and how to market oneself once one adds a slash or two to one’s job description. When the disparate threads of one’s life are woven together in this way, she argues in this creative and satisfying guide, “the whole of you comes out.”

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