From Deseret News archives:
Dual careers suiting an increasing number of professionals
Crafting a portfolio career provides employee with flexibility, greater chance of job stability
Today Gold, 51 years old, is the medical director and head of medical affairs at the Rebekah Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center in the Bronx, N.Y., and a senior vice president and medical director for Grey Healthcare Group in Manhattan. Together, these two half-time positions satisfy Gold's desire to work with patients on complex clinical cases and be part of a marketing team that creates advertising for pharmaceutical products.
"I've rounded out my must-have list of criteria for my career," he says. And perhaps just as important, Gold says, he has a higher level of job and financial security. "If one industry suffers a downturn, I am still likely to be employed by the other."
Gold is one of a growing number of professionals who are opting out of the traditional one-job track. Instead, they are crafting a portfolio of careers comprising multiple part-time jobs that, when combined, are equivalent to a full-time position. The number of people pursuing these dual or tri track careers has doubled in the past couple of years, says John A. Challenger, president of the outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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