Is there such a thing as career anymore? Little loyalty to employees and changing job market are examples that have provided a dog-eat-dog atmosphere. Changing jobs today is like changing underware.
Another very good point. My mother was with the same school system for many years, and my father spent his entire career with one university - first as a professor, then in high-level administration with the school.
When my husband and I were first married, twenty years ago, and I was laid off from a job (along with about 25% of the rest of the staff), my parents criticized us for "job hopping" and not having the "loyalty" they had to their jobs. A few years later my mother apologized to me for that; "we didn't realize how much the world had changed."
They both went into the workforce after WWII and retired VERY comfortably in the late 1970's, so they really "caught the wave" in terms of their timing.