Confession of a Contact Addict
I'm a job hopper. At 32, I've already held somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs. It's a fact that I used to try to cover up, scared my next employer would find out and not hire me. But as I get older I realize it's something that makes me uniquely me. Really, it's the thing about me that makes me most employable. I've worked with such a broad variety of people, and at all levels of the labor hierarchy, from mop boy to manager. So my experience helps me to be a sort of workplace expert. And the training I've gotten along the way has been priceless.
Despite what some may think, I'm not the guy who can't keep a job. It's just that I love to start new jobs. I thrive on it. I'm addicted to new adventures, new experiences. The thrill of first contact. Meeting new people gives me a rush.
I don't know where this addiction started, but I think I've traced it back to the fifth grade. That was the year I moved from a rural village to a big to...