'I changed 10 times in 10 years': Why Gen Z see job-hopping as the future

Brittany Harris-Nelson describes her career journey so far as being like "a frog moving across lily pads". "Each step brought me closer to where I ultimately wanted to be, even if the path wasn't always linear," says the 32-year-old.
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Brittany Harris-Nelson describes her career journey so far as being like "a frog moving across lily pads". "Each step brought me closer to where I ultimately wanted to be, even if the path wasn't always linear," says the 32-year-old. Today, Harris-Nelson works in a mid-level administrative position at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a role she had long coveted. She says that to get there, she leapt from one college job to another for close to a decade, using each new role to gain specialised skills that would help with her career advancement.
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- Brittany Harris-Nelson describes her career journey so far as being like "a frog moving across lily pads". "Each step brought me closer to where I ultimately wanted to be, even if the path wasn't always linear," says the 32-year-old.
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'I changed 10 times in 10 years': Why Gen Z see job-hopping as the future
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