Do You Really Need Multiple Careers?

It is high time you give it a thought.

Nowadays, it’s become increasingly common for people to have multiple careers. This means that you either have several careers at the same time or are pursuing different professions at different stages throughout your life. As someone who has been through a career change, I can understand why people want to have multiple careers.

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Why do people want multiple careers?

The most common reasons are because people want to pursue their interests and passions or that they want to apply different skill sets in a professional setting. Apart from these more individual or personal reasons, there are also, let’s say, more global or macro developments taking place in the world that are reasons why people increasingly have multiple careers.

Studies:

One study commissioned by the First Direct Bank and reported by Astrid Hall in the Independent says that more than half of UK workers are unsure if they’re even in the right career.

So researchers here pulled 2,000 people across the country, and their finding was that four out of ten people were planning to change their jobs within the next two years. In the beginning, I saw that this perhaps applies to millennials and gen z because…