Not made to be a "Lifer"

I'm amazed at those few individuals who can begin and end their working careers at the same place.

You don't see it that often anymore. Most of us change jobs and careers at least a handful of times during our lives. The men in my family are no different. Throughout his life my Grampa Ken worked as a chicken & turkey farmer, a real estate broker, he worked at Tinker Air Force Base, he even sold magnets and special water he believed could heal the sick and blind. My dad was a real estate broker, a banker, a loan collector, and most recently a plastics salesman. He's now decided to quit the plastics business and reenter the real estate field. As for me, since entering the workforce in 2000, I've worked for four different employers in three different fields. Sales, military, and television.

I wonder what type of person it takes to be a "lifer" or if there's really such a thing anymore. In a nation of high divorce rates, fast food, e-mail, overweight video-game-loving children, and road rage, my thinking is that most of us don't have the patience to stick with one profession our entire lives. Frankly to me, it sounds boring.