This concept also applies to recruiting.  At least it does for me, now going on 40 years in the discipline.

Do you youngsters, I mean, younger professionals in the business see yourselves doing this kind of work for a few…

If most hiring managers knew what games many (not all) HR staffing types play in blocking external recruiters, who can actually fill their hard-to-fill openings,...they would (should) cocoon them and convert them into speed bumps befitting their role in the recruitment process.

Your…

Symptoms of an addiction to recruitment, otherwise called a "staffing infection" are:

• a burning need for job descriptions...
• leash marks from attempts to restrain you from going before "Ready, Set,... GO!"   
• a swelling of the right eyeball when five resumes…