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I found a career a couple years out of college. It wasn't the career I had in mind, but it used the skills I had developed in college, and I stuck with it for over 20 years. Careers don't necessarily last a lifetime anymore, however; because of changes in the industry, outsourceing, and so on, I've had to seek a new one after all this time, and hopefully that'll last me another 15 or so.
Nor are careers synonymous with a single, multi-decade job. Those are increasingly rare, almost a fantasy. I had seven different employers in my 20 years, and the longest -- six years -- was with a technical services organization which placed me at various job sites for six months to a year. So if you count those placements, I actually had something like 15 jobs.
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