What Am I Doing With My Life?!

I recently finished reading this article from Business Week: The Disposable Worker. One thing that struck me was that there has been a significant mental shift as to how jobs and careers are conceived between my generation and my parents’. For years we’ve heard that it doesn’t matter what you do in college because people end up changing jobs and careers 5-7 times throughout their lives anyway. If that’s the case, why would 1) we assume that we’d ever be working for the same company our entire lives, or want to, and 2) why would any company assume we would stay with them for life even if they gave us the chance? Don’t we already assume, from the start, that this job won’t last more than a few years before we decide to move on to something else?

So, has this mindset predisposed us to a life as a perpetual temp?

Kerry Jobs and Careers