There are some disagreements over the issues whether it is realistic for people to have a life-time job or not. Some people believe that having a life-time job is more not only useful but also efficient because they accumulate job experience. But I strongly believe that the concept of a life-time job is unrealistic because the world is changing really fast as well as people cannot retain the same works as they age.
First of all, the constantly changing world is transforming almost job on the world. To explain this concept, the structure of corporations, job descriptions of popular work places cannot help change incessantly in modern society because of new information, new-born industries. A lot of jobs that are popular nowadays can disappear in a decades. Research shows that at least three of ten jobs that have the highest popularity in the world will be able to go out of our sight whereas advent of new jobs makes novel opportunities for human-kind.
Furthermore, according to age, work that a person is able to take is different. In other words, while young people enjoy physically demanding jobs, older people are appropriate to some kind of jobs requiring abundant experience in workplace. Because as employees’ experience accumulate, their physical health become weaker, works that is apt to them cannot help be different from each other. For example, my father was a famous football player when he was twenties. He was physically active, healthy and could compete with other players trying to improve his skills related to the body. But after a couple of decades, he had to retire from a professional football player and got a new job as a manager in a sports agency. Even though he could use his useful and affluent experience as a football star, those were totally different jobs.
In conclusion, I disagree that it is possible for people to have a same job on their entire lives. Not only is the world changing fast but their growth require different job from one that they have when they were young.
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