I helped found Shazam, now I write crime novels: Job hopping is a joy

Long gone are the days of life-long jobs and 30 year watches and thank goodness – job-hopping is a joy, writes Shazam-investor-turned-crime-bestseller-turned-play-director Ajay Chowdhury in today s Notebook From Shazam to crime novels, the joys of job hopping My father worked for the same bank in India for 40 years. Over that same span in my own career, I have had a dozen full-time jobs and more than twenty directorships across technology, business and the arts. Dad would have been horrified. I am mostly horrified to realise I have now been working longer than he did. How did that happen? For Dad, work was about providing for his family. Perhaps he enjoyed it, but enjoyment wasn’t ultimately important. For my generation, fortunate enough to have more choices, satisfaction and growth have mattered more than stability. We wanted a good living, but also a reason to look forward to Monday. Looking back, my career seems less a ladder than a series of questionable diversions. Yet