There are those who stick to their same jobs all their lives for job security, or because the setting is familiar, or family and friends are there, or sometimes because no other advantages would be likely to present themselves. My father worked at the same factory in the same city for twenty-eight years.
Others like to change jobs frequently. I am probably not the right person to talk to about staying with the same job all my life. To be sure, I have stayed with the same teaching profession all my life and thus have certain academic stability professionally. But when you hear my life story as a university professor, you will surely say that I have a high degree of the nomadic spirit in terms of jobs. In fact, I am an academic nomad. I grew up and studied in north central Indiana; then studied and taught in central Illinois; then taught for several years in Buffalo, New York; then moved back to southern Indiana to teach; then moved to central Virginia to teach; and finally I moved to Rochester, New York to teach. But wait, there's still more. I have taught university sessions as a visiting faculty member in Queens, New York, outside of New York City; in northern California; twice in eastern Canada; in northern Ohio, and at the United States Information Agency in Washington D. C. Have I mentioned that I also taught a year in Swaziland, southeastern Africa? Oh, and by the way, now I am teaching in China.