The five things you should never do in your career
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The five things you should never do in your career. Workers should know job opportunities will keep occurring and they will experience 20 "workquakes" in their lives.
My data shows that the average worker goes through 20 "workquakes" in the course of their lives — that’s one every two-and-a-half years. A workquake is a moment of disruption, reevaluation, or reinvention. Women go through these moments more frequently than men; each generation more than the prior one. Bruce Feiler is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including "Life Is in the Transitions" and "The Secrets of Happy Families." His three TEDTalks have been viewed more than 5 million times. His latest book is "The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World."
I’ve spent the last six years crisscrossing the country collecting hundreds of stories of Americans who made enormous changes in their work lives. I then coded these stories, looking for patterns and takeaways that could help the rest of us make our work lives happier. My new book, "The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World," offers a toolkit for writing your own work story.