Taking a less traveled path
Sure, you could job hop around like millennials do — in 2019, CareerBuilder noted that employers expected 45% of their newly hired college graduates to stay with the company for less than two years — in order to move up the food chain of a corporation faster. But what happens when they outsource your job overseas? Or have a bad quarter and layoff half your department and stick you with twice the workload? Or they decide that you didn’t earn your bonus this year because you missed one of your 14 goals? Or the economy takes a nosedive and you can’t land another job because of the law of supply and demand? The list of possibilities goes on and on, because there are myriad variables that prevent you from controlling your own destiny when you choose the path of “job security” via employment. Control, especially when working for an employer, is simply an illusion.