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Found out the average person changes careers 5 to 7 times and it hit me hard
I was reading a Bureau of Labor Statistics report last night and that number really surprised me. I always thought I was a failure for switching fields twice in my 40s, but now I see it's pretty normal. Has anyone else felt like a quitter only to realize you're just following the trend?
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the_tara1mo agoMost Upvoted
@gavinlopez great question, but bottom line just pick a path and commit for a while.
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gavinlopez1mo ago
Did the report give a breakdown of whether those switches were voluntary or not?
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ray3631mo ago
Gavin's question assumes the report is some detailed document worth analyzing. Probably it's just a summary with a few bullet points and a pie chart nobody looked at twice. The whole "voluntary vs involuntary" thing is a distraction anyway. People switch jobs for all sorts of reasons that don't fit cleanly into those categories. Maybe they left because their boss was annoying or the commute was bad. Those aren't really voluntary or involuntary, they're just life happening. Even if the report had that breakdown, it wouldn't change anything. It would just give people something else to argue about online.
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