LAWYERS: WANT SOME VARIETY IN YOUR CAREER? . . . Have you ever fallen into the trap of thinking that lawyers with other professional interests are unfocused, insufficiently serious, somehow defective? Maybe you've wanted to get started on a dual career yourself, but feared the way that others might view your decision.

In One Person/Multiple Careers, Marci Alboher provides a new way of looking at this dilemma, which really isn't a dilemma at all. Alboher calls people with multiple careers "slashes," as in lawyer/writers or doctor/actors, and she demonstrates with real-life examples that embracing multiple careers is often a healthy and fulfilling way for normally curious people to integrate their varied interests. 

Trained as a lawyer herself, Alboher offers stories of a lawyer/filmmaker, a psychotherapist/violin maker, a chemist/poet/playwright, a lawyer/actor/director, and many other such "slashes." In addition to the profiles, Alboher provides tips "on the practical aspects of creating and thriving in a slash life: how to best present yourself to others; how to benefit from the synergies of slashing," and more.

As a so-called "trait-curious" person myself, I enjoyed the way that the book offered a completely new way of looking at career choices that seem logical to me, but which many more traditional-minded professionals would consider dangerous and ill-advised.

Marci Alboher's website can be found here. For another take on the book by a lawyer, see Carolyn Elefant's post at My Shingle, "Don't Slash and Burn, Just Slash."