WANTED: Recent Business School Graduate. Must have graduated top-of-class with 4.0 cumulative grade point average. Must also have been elected class Valedictorian. Thirst for adventure and willingness to travel the world are a must. Responsible for own travel and accommodations and must be willing to work for donations, all of which will be given directly to charity. No prior experience necessary.

Interested?

Likely not. Enter Sean Aiken – Job seeker and founder of www.oneweekjob.com. Personifying the extreme of the stereotypical restless N-Gen employee who is always looking for the next best opportunity, Sean eschewed typical high-achieving Business grad positions in Investment Banking and Management Consulting and decided to become the ultimate job-hopper, in search of the perfect career.

Beginning in February, 2007, Sean embarked on the ultimate career soul-search, with a mission to try 52 jobs in 52 weeks – any job, anywhere in the world – in an effort to “figure out what to do with [his] life”. Now a Vintner, in Yakima, Washington and in week 38 of his adventure, Sean has been all over Canada and the United States, working as everything from an Advertising Executive to an Exterminator.

Surviving on the kindness of strangers who have provided room, board and transportation, Sean has raised nearly $15,000 from his wages for the Make Poverty History campaign. What started out as a small project has turned into a new full-time job every week, and another full-time job responding to fan emails, job offers and media inquiries. By the end of week 52, Sean hopes to have helped himself, and others in his generation, “figure out what it is we should or should not be doing with our lives.”

While Sean represents the extreme of the Net Generation’s desire for, and comfort with, multiple career experiences, he really highlights the fact that for the majority of N-Geners, the days of a lifetime employer or a single career are relics of the past.