Smart people make shitty worker-bees.
As my Sophomore year of college wraps up most of my friends are searching for summer jobs and internships, either to make some spending money or to gain enough work experience to attract a top level employer one day, or both. For them it makes sense, they are in search of a job that will pay them a comfortable salary and allow them to move up in position as their skills and knowledge progress and they become more and more valuable to the company. They will become so invested in the company that it would never think of terminating such a valuable employee, not after all these years and all they've done for the company. And then they are let go 2 years before retirement.
A one and done career path, to me seems like the riskiest investment anyone can make. We live in an unbelievably complex and dynamic world, developing a highly specific skill sets is a very poor waste of energy when your skill set can easily be replaced by a more efficient person or process. It's important to focus on developing a wide range of skills and different angles of intelligence. Make yourself broad so that you support a wide range of activities and you will become valuable and indispensable.
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