The older I get the more I think I better just go to work every day. I don’t think it’s a good idea to job hop any more. It’s just good to have a job and the alternative is abhorrent. Maybe that’s why older workers are better. We know we’re not bulletproof and indispensible like we thought when we were younger. Also, we have more to lose and far less time to start over. I’m in my late forties, and I figure I got one last good career push left in me so I started grad school this fall. I’m starting to wonder what I got myself into.
“The older I get the more I think I better just go to work every day. I don’t think it’s a good idea to job hop any more.”
Harvard Business Review did a study that said you should job hop every five years until you reach 40 {I forget what the age cutoff was...) and after that you are better of sticking where you are.