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Once upon a time, you went to college, graduated, then got a job for the next thirty years with one company, where you retired with a full pension and gold watch. Unfortunately, those days are gone. Plus, jobs and gigs are now more fragile and tumultuous than at any other point since the Great Depression. This book discusses how the savvy career mavens of today are rocking their careers–through the idea of being multipational, or having a career portfolio of several jobs and gigs at the same time. Hear from 5 different multipational career professionals who are navigating the current turbulent career waters to create successful, lucrative careers and networks through multipational practices.

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Date de parution	05 mai 2015
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EAN13	9781456624750
Langue	English
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Multipationals:
The Changing World of Work, and
How to Create Your Best Career Portfolio

Erin L. Albert

Multipationals: The Changing World of Work, and How to Create Your Best Career Portfolio
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Other Books by Erin L. Albert
The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM: Funbook (coming 2015)
The New Pharmacist: 46 Doses of Advice (2014)
The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM (2014)
Law School: A Few Short and Plain Statements (2013)
Plan C: The Full-Time Employee and Part-Time Entrepreneur (2011)
The Medical Science Liaison: An A To Z Guide (2007, 2011)
Single. Women. Entrepreneurs. (2011)
Indianapolis: A Young Professional’s Guide (2008, 2010)
The Life Science Lawyer (2009)
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The Gifts of Indiana: A Tale of Three Birthdays and One Grand Adventure (2015)
Max Greene and the Vaccine Team (2015)
He Huffed and He Puffed But…A Tale of a Wolf with Asthma (2013)
Pharmacy and Me (2012)
Prescription To My Younger Self: What I Learned After Pharmacy School (2008)

To all the multipationals out there
ahead of the curve,
already hustling their way
to an unforgettable career.
Introduction
Once upon a time, there was a promise. It was a promise made between the American workforce and employers. The promise went a little something like this:
If you go to a college and graduate,
you’ll be able to get a job.
This job will be full time.
This job will have benefits, a pension, and
you’ll retire from this job after 30 years,
with a gold watch at retirement.
You’ll live the rest of your days after age 65 in retirement bliss.
Unfortunately, I don’t think this promise is going to remain. It’s already changing right before our eyes.
There are many forces at play making this promise antiquated. First, a college degree no longer guarantees a job, let alone a full time 40-hour a week job with benefits. Pensions rarely exist now. Retirement is a concept that many cannot even fathom, let alone plan for in decades to come. Also, people are living longer.
Graduate school doesn’t even guarantee a full time steady job. Law school is the perfect example of this. Law school enrollment is still down around 40% across the U.S. as I write this, as law has not panned out as a lucrative career anymore. 1 Young or new lawyers can’t find jobs that are full time with benefits. Many settled for contract gigs that had no guarantee of any long-term employment, with a lot of debt from law school.
While medicine may appear seemingly lucrative, as an example, physicians continue to receive pressure from insurers to see more patients in less time, and keep them out of hospitals. Most physicians discourage others from signing up for the profession. Suicide rates for physicians are often taboo and not discussed. 2
Pharmacy—my own first profession—is also starting to saturate. Too many pharmacy students are coming out of too many pharmacy schools, which has provided a challenge of new pharmacists to find full-time jobs in major metropolitan areas—like Atlanta and Chicago. While some in pharmacy think this is a huge opportunity, I see it as a challenge—to help students I teach move ahead of this trend, find ways to uniquely position themselves in the flood of pharmacists, and bring more to the table than merely being a licensed pharmacist.
One of my friends (a physician himself) best articulated what is happening in the new economy and about careers—“All bets are off.” As a professor (of pharmacy law and pharmacy) I now worry about how to teach and prepare the next generation to maximize their careers.
I’ve also noticed a pattern among the best and brightest workers outside of my day job as a professor.
By best and brightest, I mean the professionals who are really rocking their entire lives—their careers are taking off like rockets, they have vast, complex networks, and they seem to be everywhere professionally. What are they doing different from the herd when it comes to career superstardom?
The key, at least I’ve witnessed, is that they are “multipationals,” which is a term I developed (OK, a term I totally made up), to describe how these rock stars approach work.
Multipational: (noun) – One who has multiple career gigs, paid or unpaid, at the same time. A person with a simultaneous portfolio of career gigs, projects and passions.
Don’t confuse the multipational with the “slash” – which is a term that has been utilized in the literature as another career management phenomenon. A slash, at least in my mind, tends to have multiple careers, but has compartmentalized them temporally, but not necessarily to run simultaneously. That is, the slash may have part of their calendar year in one career, then shift to another career at a different part of the year. For example, a teacher in the summer months off may have a completely different career unrelated to teaching—like acting, or gardening, or something else totally different outside the academic year.
The slash differs from the multipational in that the multipational runs multiple, different career tracks at the same time . They don’t abandon different careers temporally—they carry their multiple careers with them wherever they go.
While you can certainly read more about the slash through several different books—what I propose and argue in this book relative to career development as “multipationals” I do not believe has been addressed in publication yet and defined as such.
There are a lot of books on multiple streams of income as well—having a gig of your own on the side as an entrepreneur, etc. But, in the post-economic downturn, I’ve noticed that the best, savviest professionals in any professional/technical background are carrying gigs forward within their career paths, rather than abandoning them or leaving jobs or gigs behind. These multiple gigs might be full-time or part-time. They may be paid in financial capital, social capital, or both. Most of the work isn’t seasonal or temporal, either—all gigs are integrated into the workweek in the cases I’ve studied in this book.
Why is it time for this book?
Why did I write this book? Well, after noticing this trend, I thought it was time to start asking these rock stars why they manage their careers this way, how they do it (time management alone I marvel with these multipationals), and their own philosophies on work. My hope that this will help you, as the reader, develop your own multipational path and stay ahead of the curve when it comes to career development in this rapidly changing, global marketplace. If you don’t think the world of work is changing—consider this your wake up call.
Last, I’m only including a few real-world people and cases in this book to start the dialogue about multipationalism. As I move through the universe, I will seek others managing a portfolio career, in order to continue the dialogue. If you’re multipational, I’d love to hear from you about why you chose this path, how you’re managing it, etc. Send me a tweet at @ErinLAlbert with the hashtag #multipational – I’m listening, and I’d love to hear your multipational stories. I’ll call this an “unbook,” as Todd Sattersten does when he notes that books are really ongoing conversations, rather than objects with finite endings.
Read on. Look for patterns as I have tried to do as well. Let me know what you think. Most important, think about your own career path and how you can make it even better and “safer” moving forward. Are you ready to be a multipational? Read on to find out.