vicissitous

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
 * 2) * 1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
 * The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed
 * The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed