I'll be honest: I've had one job since I got out of college almost 35 years ago. I had quite a few jobs before then, mostly farming and construction, but my career since college has been a single employer. In 1979, engineers were in huge demand by aerospace and petroleum companies; if you had a degree you could get a job. I survived the aerospace downturn in the eighties, and eventually moved from engineering into IT, and from aerospace into automotive. I consider myself quite lucky that I was spared during the 2008 financial crisis; my colleagues all around me we tapped for early retirement and layoff while I didn't miss a day of work. Were it not for the government bailout of the auto industry, I'm sure I would have lost my job and might still be out of work today. Believe me, those of us in the auto industry are very grateful to the rest of the country for the bailout.
The job situation is so much different today: Although I had a very thorough background screening for a DoD security clearance, most employers today subject their prospective candidates to screenings at least as exhaustive as what I went through to get a Secret clearance. Drug tests, for example, were unheard of in the seventies. Today, one screwup and you'll never get a decent job.
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