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Seven Careers in a Lifetime – True or False?

September 9, 2010 by Daniel

Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.gov) does not provide estimates on the number of times people change careers in the course of their working lives, there’s a claim (or misconception) floating around that states most people will change careers 5 to 7 times during their lifetime.

Is that true? Or is more fairy tale?

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the number of lifetime career changes is sketchy at best.

“The problem is career change is tricky to define,” says Solomon Polachek, a professor of economics and political science at Binghamton University in New York, who nonetheless calls the seven-career figure “a considerable overestimate.”

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