The New "Job Gypsy" Business Model Is A Complete Economic Dead End For US Workers.

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20. I for one am doing ok as one. It's not for everyone sure

I'm on my 8th state and 10th city. EVERY job search, either voluntary or after layoffs etc, is a national one for me. It gives me more options. Nine out of those 10 moves have been to my financial benefit, the outlier was a take what you can after a year out of work but moved on again 18 mos later.

Some people decide "roots" are more important than socioeconomic wellbeing but not my preference. I hear people almost everywhere I have lived and their conversations are often tedious rehashes of what they - fortysomethings and above - did in high school. Their worldviews are limited to their county and they raise eyebrows at accents from two states away. Everybody? No obviously not but way more than most would think. Where many people think that "sense of close knit community" is a plus, I consider it a limiting handicap. Even were it not for career progress I'm glad I've lived in different regions, from massive cities to rural villages, from walking distance to Canada to Dixie. It has expanded my knowledge and my reference points, and all I've had to give up are people who know what I did as a teenager and can talk about the same teachers.

I'd take that trade for free, but being willing and ready to move has also advanced my career, opportunities, bank balance, and otherr selfish criteria too.