The days of your first job being your last are now long gone.
Take the baby boomers—people born between 1946 and 1964. People in this generation have held an average of nearly 12 jobs before age 48, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And people born in the early 1980s—aka millennials—held an average of six jobs by age 26, according to the BLS.
