"students will work 10 to 15 different jobs"

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<p>Will someone explain to me why people keep saying that "today's students will go through all kinds of jobs". Well, if you get a BS in say chemical engineering, wouldn't you be doing engineering related stuff for pretty much your whole life, or maybe change fields to business. Thats only 2 different kind of jobs. Likewise, a person with an accounting degree is probably going to do something in accounting or accounting-related. I mean its so far-fetched how there are some people saying that the future job market is unstable and that people are going to be working all kinds of odd-jobs.</p>

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<p>I think those “10 to 15 jobs” are ones that are relatively easy to get</p>

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<p>I’ve had… let me see… at least 4 jobs already, and may have had 6 by the end of this Summer. 10-15 seems reasonable. (do they mean full-time positions?!?)</p>

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<p>they may be referring to the common practice of changing employers (even within the same field) every 2-4 years. you can often secure more and better pay raises this way :P</p>

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<p>In the contracting world, it is possible to change employers often. Funds get reduced, projects get dropped/modified, defense contracts get dropped/modified. Hell, in the defense contracting world, it is possible for a company to lose a contract to another company and that company who now holds the contract steals all of the employees of the former company holding the contract.</p>

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<p>Ok I see that makes sense in the context you guys are saying. I thought those people meant like jumping between random industries or working between restaurants/gas station, etc.</p>

<p>But I still think its misleading. It sounds like people in our generation can’t have a steady job where they do generally the same thing all the time.</p>

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<p>I think it’s possibly more that people in our generation don’t <em>want</em> to do generally the same thing all the time…</p>

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<p>Doing the same thing all the time almost inevitably leads to boredom. Some people, however, really love what they do and can do it an entire lifetime. Most get bored and move to another job. Doing the same thing day in and day out, even if it initially seems really interesting, does grow dull.</p>

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<p>By job, is it part-time or intern or full time?</p>