Once an autobiography uses the phrase "accepted a position," the interesting part is long past.
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Yes, for example Lalo Schifrin's autobiography. When he became conductor for an orchestra in Paris, that was not the end of the story.
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After brief employment in a private practice, Hill accepted a position working for Clarence Thomas
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Nikolai tesla "I had to accept a position" at the telegraph agency.
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I don't have the book in front of me, but Google Books says the phrase doesn't appear in the book. https://books.google.ca/books?redir_esc=y&id=vbAHAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=accepted+a+position …
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Either way, there are so many jobs and "positions" in life that filtering out post hoc life would miss a lot of interesting lives.
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However the writer's bio at the back of the book refers to it as a position.
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Einstein worked at the patent office, e.g. Obama accepted a position at a Chicago law firm before he went on to much less interesting things
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Back-of-book bio: "Schifrin was appointed musical director of the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra in 1987, a position he held for two years."
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