Working-life Jobs & Careers

• Today’s workers will change jobs 5 times before age 40 and change careers 3 times before they retire (Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 24, 1984)

• Career changes every ten years, average (American Renaissance: Our Life at The Turn of the 21st Century)

• On average a student leaving college today can expect to have 3-4, or 5 careers and 10-11, or 12 jobs during a work life that will last for 40/50 years (Journal of Planning and Employment, Winter 1990)

• Young people hold an average of 9 jobs before the age of 32 (U.S. Department of Labor, 1999)

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