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Why Settle for Just One Line of Work?

Filed under Career Exploration
Posted by Libraries, January 17, 2008
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Why Settle for Just One Line of Work

By Susan Berfield, Associate Editor. Business Week; 12/3/2007 Issue 4061. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=27611266

Have you ever considered becoming a ‘slash’? A slash is a person who enjoys more than one career simultaneously, as opposed to a career-changer who ends one career to embark on another. The following article covers an interview with Marci Alboher, a writer/teacher/public speaker who wrote One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. The slash concept is a relatively new idea that is proving as an interesting approach to career life for some people. Imagine being a computer programmer 3 days a week and having your own business as a piano teacher!

Having more than one career gives one the advantage of having variety, where each career has less of a tendency to become stale. Also, pursuing new interests sometimes has the effect of renewing one’s passion for a current job. Holding onto your current post while trying other pursuits allows you to maintain financial and job security, something that does not always happen with job changes. While some report a sense of career satisfaction with being a slash, the downfalls are that it may be more difficult to reach the top in any one of your multiple careers, and you may have decreased free time. This article offers a possible solution to one of these problems as well as many other perspectives on the slash lifestyle.

-Julie Waddick