Not really. With all the attention that I’ve paid to the difference between posts and poles lately, it struck me funny.
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*frowns*
The One Job Forever (which wasn’t particularly true – they often expected to move up in the Company) provided something that many found very very attractive: security. And it also didn’t tie up their entire life – once you were done with work for the day, you were *DONE*, unlike the current trend of yanking you in at odd hours, expecting you to respond to e-mails essentially 24/7, even while on vacation, and other behaviors that mean the Company is doing its best to ensure you have *no* life.
The problem lies, I suspect, in the difference between the idea that a business is supposed to make money, and a business is supposed to make as much money as possible. One leads to a company that is worth working for, the other – hell on Earth.
Still, you are certainly right – the fraction of the population that actually *experienced* a career (which I always understood to be a series of jobs generally increasing in experience needed and in rewards paid) – has been fairly small, though larger if you limit yourself to American Urbanites. Kind of sad, really.