Blue Chi’s

The greatest book that I’ve read in the last couple of months is Marci AlBoher’s One Person/Multiple Careers, an inspiring read on how one can achieve a more satisfying work and life success by pursuing more than a single career at the same time. The book has many stories of different approaches taken by the subjects the author met when writing this book. The book features advice on how to start a *slash* career, how to develop it, how to introduce yourself when you have one, how to write your multiple career CV, and other practical and interesting subjects.

Marci’s writing revitalized my spirit and validated the choices that I personally have taken in life. It’s not much about the tips, but the stories of success that people went through to achieve satisfaction. At many instances in my life I felt confused and thought of giving up things that I did that made me satisfied simply because they did not relate to the *main* career path I have taken. This book taught me otherwise. It taught me that it is fine to be extraordinary.

The book is surely not for everyone as some might not have the energy, drive, or courage to pursue more than one career at the same time, but it surely is a must read for those of us who cannot sit down, want to try out everything out there, and feel that they can do so much more, but are somewhat afraid or hesitant to do other things because of the engagement in a certain career.

4/5

One Person/Multiple Careers – Amazon.com
One Person/Multiple Careers – Amazon.co.uk

PS. Last month, I updated my About Me page after reading this book.

I’ve never been big on the self-help books, but after hearing and reading so much about David Allen’s Getting Things Done I had to check it out myself. GTD goes beyond theoretical motivational and productivity books in that it illustrates very specific methods for clearing our minds from all the things that pop into our lives and processing those things into a trusted system that we could use to get things done. I completed the book this week and I should start implementing the GTD model starting from tomorrow when I get back to work.

I ordered by book from Amazon, I couldn’t find the book around here, but a friend of mine told me that he got his copy from Turtles Bookshop (the staff searched the catalogue and located the book in the Airport branch).