<(._.)> Just had an interesting talk with one of my friends.
I am a person that have many interests and skim along those interests where it's not a full blown hobby but only a hobby when it's convenient and doesn't feel like a chore.
Because of dipping into so many subjects and invest some time in learning a great deal about it, you can't really put all of them into one single category. Plus, it's always changing and evolving.
The main talk was about my job, I don't like it but I don't hate it. Like other jobs I held, I did great. People liked me, they tried to push me into higher positions and then out of nowhere, I leave the job.
And it's happening again. Strange though, my job, I just learned it, wrote it's own core ethics and responsibilities and how to do the job but now, I would just rather do something else. My friend mentioned that it might be because I am a survivor. Like I almost want to world to blow up to test myself and not go with the ordinary flow of life just going through the motions.
My friends know the struggles I went through after a contractor lost a job I did for 10 years. I got creative, tried different jobs and met some really cool people, each with their own stories. Maybe, just maybe, there isn't a job I would say I would be happy with or having a job that would mentally challenge me enough.
I wouldn't fret or over-analyse things too much. As adults, invariably life-changes happen--whether indirectly from employment or relationship changes, or from our direct actions/dissatisfaction with our current situations, or want for new directions to satisfy personal needs (or even avoiding undesired outcomes.)
As such, while some adults can go their entire lives on one job, with one employer, most will at some point have different career paths, and a few will have many varied careers. While it is the case that having a single dedicated/dependable employer/vocation through one's lifetime will simplify life later on (in terms of dealing with singular retirement programs, retaining higher levels of seniority/pay-scales in that line of work, avoiding having to repeatedly re-experience job-skill learning curves upon entering new vocations/worksites, etc.) there isn't really a functional difference if one diversifies skill-sets and does different jobs, IMHO. Even retirement benefit programs often can be converted or rolled-over with minimal fuss to a new employer's version, or retained as a backup without paying too many fees/expenses.
The main issue--aside from pay/opportunities for vertical progression--for most, I think, is the notion that what we do (vocation-wise) as adults defines who we are. Even speaking pragmatically, when we talk casually and introduce ourselves to others most times the topic comes up "so what do you do?" or "what is your line of work?" That concept of self-identity as defined by our employment and job-title isn't just a modern-issue, and certainly is a factor of the classic "mid-life crisis", but it is something we have to make peace with in our own minds as we navigate through big life changes.
My view is that change happens, and is healthy, and is necessary...for good changes or bad, our flexibility as humans allows us to at least choose the life situations that are most comfortable among the options we have before us. Because big changes are inevitable in life, changes to vocations will happen as well. It's not necessarily a reflection on our inability to maintain a dependable lifetime status-quo...but maybe just don't count out the possibility that you have yet to find your 'perfect fit' combination of job/employer/location/life-situation still, before assuming there might be no such thing. ^^;;