I'm back after a great weekend. I really enjoyed seeing "The Drowsy Chaperone" performed by the Mesa State College Theatre Department. The actors were funny and the audience was wild. The theatre was full of students and everyone had a good time. I also enjoyed going up to the Grand Mesa and seeing all the colorful trees. Some of the leaves had fallen off, but there were still enough swatches of color to be impressive. I really love it here. Today's weather was great, too. Not too hot, but it was pretty nice for October.
Today I'd like to talk about my background and my future. My career recently has been in computer software tutoring, and now of course I'm becoming a Grand Junction real estate broker. This isn't as big a change as you might think: I have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, so real estate is not that far off. And changing careers or jobs is more common than most people know.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics has some information on their National Longitudinal Surveys at the Frequently Asked Questions page. They have never tried to measure how many times people change careers over their lifetime, stating: "The reason we have not produced such estimates is that no consensus has emerged on what constitutes a career change."
However, the Bureau had a news release last month, September 2010, about tracking people born 1957-1964 and how many jobs they held from age 18 to age 44. They stated: "These younger baby boomers held an average of 11 jobs from ages 18 to 44." So people my age change jobs and may be changing career fields more than society thinks. And I am one of them.
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