Arthur Brooks

The four basic ones are there are people who have kind of transitory careers that kind of bop from thing to thing to thing to thing to thing.

And they just want to be doing the minimum to make the rent and something that's adequately interesting.

But

But most of their passion comes from outside their career.

That's not young and profiting listeners mostly.

We all know people like that that are still living in the old neighborhood, et cetera, et cetera.

Their mothers are very worried about them, et cetera.

Okay.

But the three that we really see a lot now, again, fewer are going to be in this next category with your listeners as well.

is the steady state career.

That's what your grandparents had.

That's what my father had.

He had one job with basically one employer all the way through his career.

He was a college professor like me, but he was at one small liberal arts college in Seattle where I grew up.

And he was there from the very beginning of his career, almost,

to the very end in his 60s.

He died young in his 60s, but he had a 40-year career in the same place.

And he didn't get big raises.

He didn't have big advances in his career.

He just kind of chugged along and did a little bit better and got better at what he was doing.