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One Person/Multiple Careers
A New Model for Work/Life Success
by Marci Alboher
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Business Plus (February 23 2007)
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Chapter 1: The Slash Mind-Set: Begin, Improve, Reinvent. Repeat
One Person/Multiple Careers reveals how a new breed of workplace trailblazers have combined multiple talents to create the kind of work they've always dreamed of and to enrich their personal lives as well.

Chapter 1: The Slash Mind-Set, Part 2
Whether or not they are actual entrepreneurs like Milstein, serving as their own boss in their various endeavors, most slashes show an entrepreneurial streak at the heart of their stories.

Chapter 1: The Slash Mind-Set, Part 3
Having a supportive husband, who always encouraged her and who shared her philosophy on things like having a full-time nanny even when she was working part-time, was also very important to her being able to pursue her many passions.



Book Description

One Person/Multiple Careers reveals how a new breed of workplace trailblazers have combined multiple talents to create the kind of work they've always dreamed of and to enrich their personal lives as well. Filled with inspiring tales of career and financial success and loaded with levelheaded advice, this book will show you how you too can "slash" your way to a flexible and fulfilling work life. You'll learn how to:

  • Balance multiple careers, yet find more time for friends and family
  • Prepare a résumé, bio and Web site that will present your unique and varied talents
  • Use your current career to help cultivate another slash
  • Negotiate a customized work arrangement with your employer to free yourself up for other pursuits.

About the Author

Marci AlboherMarci Alboher

Marci Alboher is a writer, speaker, coach who focuses on workplace and career issues. A former corporate lawyer, she became interested in the myriad ways careers are being reinvented when she used the law to springboard into a new career as a freelance journalist. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times where she writes about business travel, small business, and the workplace.

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