My experience is U.S. focused so might differ from others. I'd argue that a single pinnacle is not the norm anymore. Rarely does someone go through life and s

My experience is U.S. focused so might differ from others. I'd argue that a single pinnacle is not the norm anymore. Rarely does someone go through life and stay with one company and climb in a linear fashion toward some career peak. Instead I think it is more normal in the past 30 years that most people go through a few different climbs. This is mainly because it is fairly common that people have more than one career anymore, and even those with one career usually have varied roles over time which means resetting expectations at some point. An example, many people in the U.S. go from climbing a corporate ladder to being a small business founder, which is a whole reset. Entrepreneurs as a general rule start over many times, so they typically have multiple peaks, and troughs for that matter. I do agree with the sentiment another post says though, when you have fewer years left in your career then you have already worked you start viewing things differently.