Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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Friday comment thread, which could do some good for people. Also, 7 other things worth knowing today.

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Mar 11, 2022
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How about a couple of statistics to start your Friday?

  • In January, yet again, another 4.3 million people quit their jobs. Add that to 47 million who quit last year. It's like the entire combined populations of California, Oregon, and Washington State.

  • Of course, most of them moved on to some other way of making a living. Millions started their own businesses, as we've seen. And, according to a new study from Pew Research, 53% of them took the chance to make a career change.

Career change could mean a lot of things, I suppose, and the folks at Pew say that "workers younger than age 30 and those without a postgraduate degree are especially likely to say they have made this type of change."

Still, it makes me think: If so many people actually did change careers, I'll bet there are a whole heck of a lot of other people out there who are thinking about it.

So, for a Friday comment thread, I wonder if we have some good stories among us about realizing we weren't in the right careers, and making …

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