Career Changes
Many experts suggest that the average person will have 5 to 7 different careers in their lifetime. Actual statistics are hard to come by since there is no agency actually collecting and measuring that data. However, a change in career is inevitable.
Our parents and grandparents worked one job for 40 years all for one company. Why are we so quick to change careers? Well, the working world has changed drastically over the years and seems to be changing at a faster and faster pace. Here are some of the reason for people change careers:
- Companies buy, sell, and merge all the time leading to many changes in their need for employees
- The break-neck speed at which technology has improved has left many careers and industries in the dust
- Entrepreneurial opportunities are everywhere
- The company doesn’t care about you so you have no loyalty to them and will work for a competitor for a reason as little as their coffee tastes better
- Your grandfather’s pension plan no longer exists
- There is no gold watch
The mass downsizing of corporations in the 1990’s and again in recent years shows that they will drop you in a heartbeat to save the CEO’s bonus. Why would you pour your heart and soul (or at least the best part of the day) working for a company that could drop you next week to save a buck. If there is anything that we learned in the recent economic downturn, it is that there is no job security.
The only job security is you getting up every morning and working for yourself. You create your own job by doing something you are passionate about and you will find a way to keep money in your pocket. I would rather be in control and be responsible for my well being than to depend on a job that may not be there tomorrow.