A facebook friend posted this a week or two ago: "what should you value more in a professional experience: quality, or "quantity", that is, length of commitment? is it just my generation, or are most people always looking for a better, more interesting, or just more convenient way to earn their living and enjoy their work?"
Of course the reading of this reminded me of how I am racked with guilt over being one of those Generation Y losers who haven't stayed at one place of employment for multiple, continuous years. I try to justify, and think over the reasons why I have not stayed. Well, I suppose it began with college. I worked summer only. Then work-study at the Columbus museum came along, interrupted by an internship in D.C. I did go back to Columbus, yet I doubt that counts as continuity. Then graduation...and work-study ended and the museum had no place for me. I volunteered for a few months, worked retail for a few more, then got back into the old Development office for a few months. Then I had the awesome idea to go to graduate school. Ooops? More work-study, but there wasn't enough work to last past May both years. Summer jobs. Unpaid internships. Volunteering. Substitute teaching. 2010 Census. Then finishing the last 4 months of the Zanesville museum's education grant.
I want to know, quite simply and unequivocally, does the past decade of my life make me ineligible to work for a living?
Because it was all supposed to do the opposite.
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