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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Marci Alboher: One person multiple career (20 Min)

Podcast page: http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/438/154/
This podcast & book covers the people's success through multiple careers & effectiveness of this.

Multiple careers, these are your professional identities or personal identities; This is recognized with a slash(/).
E.g. Bono: Rock star/Humanitarian - He use his rock star career to propel his other career

These slashes are your deep interest or big life commitments that might of become a second career. People with multiple careers don’t see a distinction between these careers, just differents part of their lives.
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When: It’s hard enough to have 1 job, how can I have 2?
  • You have to find a right time to do this
  • Try it when you are in a less demanding/coasting period of your job
  • Take some adult education in an area you are interested
Who is it for?
  • For the restless & curious
  • Someone looking for career advancement (not just job advancement)
  • Looking for opportunity & fulfillment in life
How to do it?
  • You can mix a fix career & with a portable career (such as: programmer & blogger)
  • Virtual & Portable career: a career where you can do with the help of internet & technology
  • 4 slashes that go with anything:
    Writing, Speaking, Teaching, Consulting
Remember: The life-long jobs with a pension after 20 years are vanishing everwhere, so we all need to be entrepreneurial in life.
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Unexpected Future Opportunities - Slash Synergy:
  • Support life if the other part of life is bad
  • Opening career opportunity & career transition
  • Networking opportunities arise for the different part of their slash
Since your network is built by following your deep interest, you will be more fulfilled in your career.
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Slash makes you & life interesting, distinctive & an edge; sometimes the slash careers will make you the only qualified person for a job/career.

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