{"id":817,"date":"2012-01-17T05:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2012-01-16T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:47:19","slug":"do-you-have-%e2%80%9cthe-four-year-career%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/do-you-have-%e2%80%9cthe-four-year-career%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have \u201cThe Four-Year Career\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/do-you-have-%e2%80%9cthe-four-year-career%e2%80%9d\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What does your career pattern look like?\u00a0 How does it compare to your peers?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does it say about you, about what you believe and where you are going?\u00a0 What does it say about career planning and living in general?<\/p>\n<p>The article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/162\/average-time-spent-at-job-4-years\" target=\"_blank\">The Four-Year Career\u201d<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/user\/anya-kamenetz\" target=\"_blank\">Anya Kamenetz<\/a> discusses a pattern the article states is increasingly defining the careers of US workers. Read it and share your view.<\/p>\n<p>The article shares some recent statistics &#8211; &#8220;the median number of years a US worker has been in his or her current job is just 4.4, down sharply since the 1970s.\u201d\u00a0 As well as a close look at the careers of three people, two females, ages 36, and 61, and one male, age 28. Additionally, it shares more interesting statistics, insights and lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The world of work is new and different than many of us were taught as young children, or at least different than how I was taught.\u00a0 My view of what I was taught at an early age shifted in the 1980s.\u00a0 Do you still believe what you learned as a young child?\u00a0 Has your view shifted?\u00a0 If not, what would happen if your view did make a shift?<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the article.\u00a0 I&#8217;d enjoy hearing your thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/user\/anya-kamenetz\" target=\"_blank\">Anya Kamenetz\u2019s <\/a>article.\u00a0 Post them below or drop me an email.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May I leave you with a few questions to ponder\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What do you believe in, why do you want to do the work you are pursuing?<\/p>\n<p>What job or jobs (for others) could you create if you move or drive toward new goals, objectives and your beliefs?<\/p>\n<p>What is next for you?\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have a four year plan?\u00a0 If no, what do you want a plan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What does your career pattern look like?\u00a0 How does it compare to your peers?\u00a0\u00a0 What does it say about you, about what you believe and where you are going?\u00a0 What does it say about career planning and living in general? The article in Fast Company, \u201cThe Four-Year Career\u201d by Anya Kamenetz discusses a pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,22,20],"tags":[9,56,142,57],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-management","category-personal-branding","category-resources","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-anya-kamenetz","tag-career-management","tag-fast-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}