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Why do people cycle in and out of jobs so frequently?  I hate the changes of personnel in agency life.  Yet it appears to be an accepted fact of life.  It is terribly disconcerting.

I’m new in my role - and yes, I made a change for a better job.  I didn’t fit in where I last worked.  It had a conservative culture and change was talked about more than it was enacted. 

And now I’m making changes.  Is that causing people to re-evaluate?  A sage Gen-Yer told me the other night that a new boss gets people thinking.  It’s not that they dislike the direction - many appear to be jazzed.  Yet it makes people question their own career ambitions.  And lots of times that means change.

At the other extreme too little change is bad, also.  Ford prints a glossy catalogue of gifts that employees choose from on their 25th anniversary.  When I’d been at Ford five years I was called a ‘tweener - neither a newbie or a lifer. 

What is a healthy pace of change?