One Person/Multiple Careers

Critical Praise

"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."
-Publisher's Weekly

"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 unified-and better-life. If your 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 A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation

"A 'slash' that multiplies professions into a single career Punctuation can go a long way toward clarity. Just ask Marci Alboher. The author/speaker/writing coach says in her new book that the "slash" nicely sums up the way more people live and work these days."
-The Record (New Jersey)

"If you're not satisfied with answering "what do you do?" with a single job title, if you want more time for your passions -- above all -- more life, One Person/Multiple Careers is THE book to read."
-From Author/Entrepreneur/Blogger Tim Ferriss

"Like every other work+life choice, having one career and wanting another is not necessarily an "all or nothing" proposition. One Person/Multiple Careers adds an important and overdue perspective to the conversation. It confirms that creatively combining work and life is an "everyone" issue."
-From Work/Life Expert Cali Yost

"Great new book out by Marci Alboher, One Person/Multiple Careers. It's filled with real life examples of people who move between multiple careers and still make time for friends and family. The author calls them people living slash lives, such as poet/computer programmer or real estate agent/musician. Multiple careers seems like a great way to avoid burnout or to keep a safe job and venture into something more risky. But how do you overcome obstacles and negotiate work arrangements? Some tips from Alboher: keep multiple business cards, multiple resumes, and find slash-friendly employers. A big advantage: A frustration or challenge in one type of work is offset by the complementary nature of an entirely different kind of work."
-Worklifebalancingact.blogspot.com

"It's more than a book about slash-careers -- it's a book about uncovering the professional life you want to lead, and about thinking outside the box, not being limited to the traditional 9-to-5 job, and finding ways to turn interests and hobbies into real pursuits."
-Jeremy Blachman, Author of Anonymous Lawyer/Blogger

"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 you're holding the best advice of more than 100 folks who've done it already. Better get out your thank you cards, because you'll be writing one to Marci Alboher before you finish Chapter 3!"
-Keith Ferrazzi, CEO/speaker/ entrepreneur/author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

"User-friendly…a must-read for anyone wanting to successfully navigate multiple callings."
-Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

"Written for those people who have multiple skills and interests, ONE PERSON/MULTIPLE CAREERS provides a winning strategy in both surviving and prospering in today's 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 and abilities 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 and coauthor of Quarterlife Crisis

"Insightful…essential for anyone trying to find time to pursue multiple passions."
-Laura Stack, speaker/mom/writer, author of Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It

"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 Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This and You Want Me to Work with Who?

"No one likes to be pigeon-holed or put in a box. Marci helps us all 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 career and executive coaching firm, Next Step Partners

"I really like this book-especially 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

"For a while I wondered if I could pull of two careers, but now that I've stumbled upon Marci Alboher's book One Person/Two Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success, I'm ready to take the plunge. I love the stories in this book: A police officer decides to also become a personal trainer. A psychotherapist takes up violin making on the side. And Alboher herself has taken up a journalism-author-speaker-writing coach career to compliment her life as an attorney. The stories are really quite inspiring to those of us who don't want to simply settle for one focus, one job, one office, one route to work. This book, though, is not just inspiration story time. Alboher actually gives us advice on how to be inBubbleGuy and Beer Cape Boy at the same time. It's action-oriented."
-Inbubblewrap.com

"If you're not satisfied with answering "what do you do?" with a single job title, if you want more time for your passions and — above all — more life, One Person/Multiple Careers is THE book to read. I struggled with the one-career-one-identity workplace for ages, and the more than 100 case studies in this book present a different reality. Marci, whose journalistic pedigree makes the stories and lessons flow, shows us all how to combine seemingly unrelated careers, overcome overload, and master the new "slash" approach to the game of life."
-Cubicleescapeartist.com/blog

"The slash lifestyle is the way of the future. The rapidly globalizing job market will force many workers to modify their careers. Some will feel victimized, but those with slash careers will find themselves prepared for a changing job market. I highly recommend this book to those who have always had multiple interests as well as to those who want to stay relevant in today's global economy. What a timely subject with so many Baby Boomers entering retirement healthy and full of life."
-Armchairinterviews.com

"Having a slash career isn't something to manage, or explain away. It's something to ASPIRE TO, and Marci Alboher shows you the methods for making it work. This is the greatest contribution that this highly readable book makes. That slashing is part of good living."
-Michaelmelcher.blogspot.com

"Ultimately, though, being good at many things rather than great at one may be the price that I pay for a slash existence. And as Alboher's book makes clear, even with some trade-offs, for many the slash career still comes out on top in the end."
-Myshingle.com

"Marci Alboher has written a great new book One Person / Multiple Careers in which she outlines good tips for building a customized career of your dreams by becoming a slash. Marci -- thanks for sending this to me! Go evangelize the wonders of a slash lifestyle!"
-Ben.casnocha.com

"This is an extremely well written and extremely lively book. In fact, I would go as far as saying that it is a real page-turner! Essential reading for anyone thinking of a career change by adding another dimension to one's current life. Do you have what it takes to be a Slash?"
-Pascalvenier.com/blog

If you feel you can do more with your life than just your current Nine-to-Five role, Marci Alboher's new book, One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success may be for you."
-Kentblumberg.com

"The real value of this book is in the stories of people who are succeeding as slashes." -Kent@kentblumberg.com

"Buy the book. You won't regret it."
-Carolross.typepad.com