How many jobs have YOU had?
A coworker hits 30 years on the job tomorrow, the only job he's ever had. Meanwhile, my son is 22 and has had over a dozen different jobs already in his short life. Got me thinking about how many paying jobs I've had.
Mowing lawns
High school cafeteria
Tutor
Camp counsellor
College cafeteria
Fast food delivery
College TA
US Air Force
Satellite engineer
Total: 9
How many different paying jobs have you had?
Mowing lawns
High school cafeteria
Tutor
Camp counsellor
College cafeteria
Fast food delivery
College TA
US Air Force
Satellite engineer
Total: 9
How many different paying jobs have you had?
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I've been at my current job for 25 years...the only job I've had post-college outside of a few freelance gigs along the way.
During high school and college, I think I had about 5 different jobs.1 -
I started babysitting - 12 years old
Maintaining seismographs, changing the paper, age 12-14
Caregiver of a disabled veteran with 2 tiny children at age 14 - summer job
Sidenote: This job taught me how to cook perfect eggs, he demanded they be just like in the military. He was a very unhappy man, but I tried and cried, every single day. He kept cookies in the freezer. He could hear me open that freezer door, on the daily. At the end of the summer, he docked my pay for every cookie. It really added UP. I combed his hair, did things he could not do. Props to all of the nurses and caregivers out there.
Entered the workforce at age 15, telecom radio/telephone operator - This is 700 Adam, what's your 10-20.
Not bragging if it's true, I have a radio voice. Law enforcement dudes used to come into the comm center to check me out, but they I found out I was just a kid.
After college, a real job with benefits2 -
Nude Art Model - 4 years and some change
Hotel Desk Clerk - 2 years
Mail Clerk/Desk Clerk - 2 years
Subway "Sandwich Artist" - 8 months
Illustrator/Commissioned Artist/Crafter - 20+ years
I wasn't allowed to have a job until I went to college; had no car and things in my town at the time were spaced out way too far to walk to maintain an after-school job. In college, I still had no job, but there was enough nearby to walk to and find employment.1 -
A high ole 3 for me.
Figure skating coach
Legal assistant
Realtor (which is about to be my next one)0 -
Oh, let's see...
Started at a fast food place, then a grocery store, then a casual restaurant, then a different restaurant, then an office job in a leasing office of an apartment complex. Did a stint working in a collection agency office -that did NOT suit me. Moved departments to work on the backend for the corporate side. Back to property management, and then to a management company's corporate office doing accounts payable. Another grocery store job and delivering newspapers in the middle of the night while also working during the day. Some various temp style jobs here & there thrown in. And been with my current employer (desk job, handling all the back office business for a small company) for almost 17 years now. And for 10 years of that also did part time pizza delivery. Some overlap, working 2 jobs at once...
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Since completing my professional degrees? just one, 35 years in May. Although I've had a number of different roles within the organization.
Prior to that I had the usual hodgepodge of teenage jobs:
Babysitting
School lab assistant
Playground supervisor
Drycleaner's - mainly customer service, also checking garments
Bar server, bartender, short order cook
University library shelver and circulation desk clerk0 -
This is kind of interesting.
I can't tell you in years....
The requisite babysitting gigs in last year of jr high/beginning of high school
Took phone orders for a food distributor in high school
Office assistant in a private jewish day school in high school (1/2 owned by same person I babysat for actually)
Went off to college and worked during christmas time in a Crown Books
Left college and did data entry and other administrative stuff in a cpa firm
That firm broke up into two separate firms while I was out with a fractured ankle and basically did the same thing in firm #2 who got got me in the divorce
). I think I was there for 10 years or so.
Admin stuff in a property management firm (that didn't last long)
But I left because the female partner in the 2nd cpa firm wanted me to come work for her (another 10ish years I think)
I apparently got too expensive for them and ended up in another cpa firm doing my usual thing
They slowly made my job obsolete
ANOTHER cpa firm doing payroll and admin stuff and been here (surprisingly) for 18 years
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Hairstylist
Pharmacy tech
Cashier
Hairstylist again twice
Personal shopper
Uh worked at lowes as mst (building and tearing down displays and any manual labor aspects of the store)
Now I’m at the airport and have worked in two different sections but it’s under the same job title.
Longest I ever stayed anywhere was like 3 years. Average 1.2 -
I've worked at Kmart, Ames, Macy's, Marshall's and as a dispatcher for a trucking company. I haven't worked in about 20 years though because I decided to become a mom and I've been a full time mom since then. Now my youngest is starting school in the fall so I'm looking forward to getting back out there in the world and start working again.2
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🤔 200
Since Im doing everyones job currently..😂
Irl 4.. 2 real jobs..2 part time (younger years)
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I had 4 or 5 jobs as a teenager that always lasted about a week.
Pizza Hut, Taco Bueno, etc.
As an adult, 2.
11yrs as a draftsman for a geologist.
11yrs working for my ex’s oil company, AP, AR and whatever else he asked me to accomplish.3 -
Grocery Store Clerk
Gas Station Attendant
Bicycle Mechanic
Bicycle Salesperson
Cleaner
Orderly
Nursing Assistant
Bicycle Courier
EMT/Paramedic
Patient Transport Officer
Electrician Trade Assistant
Probably some others... somehow managed to avoid fast food.
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Interesting question:
~27 years working
Teen years: Baby sitting and grocery store check out clerk
Late teens / adult years:
Hotels - 20+ years (3 hotels but ~12 roles)
Universities - 3+ years (2 universities and 3 roles)
I’m fairly sure I’m in my forever workplace now but likely will have 1-2 more roles before I one day retire.
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When I was 10 I was living in a small town in Nebraska and had a small paper route that consisted largely of the assisted living facility that my dad was the administrator of and a handful of SFH on one street. I also mowed lawns in the summer.
When I was 15 I was living in New Mexico and had a part time job at a roller skating rink as a DJ and floor referee. When I was 16 I started working at a movie theater, which was my favorite teen job. I graduated high school at 18 and joined the USMC.
After I was discharged I bounced around as a security guard, worked at a pizza joint, waited tables and then started working at a local liquor retailer where I worked for about 6 years until I graduated university. It was a lot of fun as it was very near my university campus and the football and basketball stadiums so the crowd was largely college students and the people working there were mostly college students. It was also nice to be able to be without a vehicle and just walk or ride my bike everywhere. For a few summers I also did landscape construction work full time during the week and part time at the liquor store.
For my actual post college career I've only been in two places. I started with a CPA firm after I graduated and was a staff associate then promoted to senior associate for which I performed those duties for three years. I gave me a ton of experience, but the work-life balance in an accounting firm is pretty non-existent as everything is about billable hours, but I was there for almost 6 years.
I started looking for other opportunities when my wife became pregnant with our first child because the whole 60-80 hours per week and 25 weeks of travel weren't going to work for her nor myself. I landed in the NM Judiciary and was hired as the Court Financial Administrator/CFO for my district. I recently applied and interviewed for our open Deputy Director position for which I'm hoping to hear something either way shortly.
All in all, 12 or 13 different jobs.
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honey_honey_12 wrote: »I had 4 or 5 jobs as a teenager that always lasted about a week.
Pizza Hut, Taco Bueno, etc.
As an adult, 2.
11yrs as a draftsman for a geologist.
11yrs working for my ex’s oil company, AP, AR and whatever else he asked me to accomplish.
I’d like to add that I would have worked longer as a draftsman for the geologist.
It was awesome money, I worked from home the whole time my son was little, great job, but computers stole it from me.
Everything I did by hand was replaced with the first drafting programs and a color printer.
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Interesting thread. I too work in a place where there are "lifers", 25+ years, only job.1
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Never worked in High School. After graduating:
Factory Worker - 5 years (Relocated)
Furniture Manufacturer-Draftsman - 7 Months (Relocated)
Electrical Component Manufacturer-Draftsman - 6 Months (Company downsized)
Wastewater Treatment Equipment Manufacturer-Draftsman/Designer/Engineering Manager - 11 years (Company was Sold)
Aircraft Galley Equipment Manufacturer-Designer - 3 years (Company was sold)
Greenhouse Manufacturer-Designer - 16 years (Company was sold)
PVC Railing Manufacturer-Sales/Designer - 10 years and counting....1 -
From starting after college (not counting what I did in my teen years or in college)
First grade teacher - 3 years
Call Centers (two different locations) 6 years
Different Retail locations (part time while working full time at the call center) - 5 years
Paralegal - going on 11 1/2 years and counting
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I have a niece who started a job right after 'junior college' with an Associate Degree. She's been with the same company for the past 39 years, actually even in the same department as where she started. Me, I've been retired for the past 13 years, but during my 48 working years, I had many jobs in 13 different 'fields' ... The longest I worked for any employer was 25 years. The shortest? 3 months.
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High School & College jobs
1. Babysitter
2. Camp Counselor
3. Restaurant Hostess
4. Retail (clothing)
5. Various office temp jobs (switchboard operator, receptionist, data entry)
“Career” jobs
6. Staff Writer/Advertising Coordinator (Real Estate magazine)
7. Promotions Coordinator (trade magazine publisher)
8. Creative Services Coordinator/Assistant to Publisher (bridal magazine)
9. Marketing Coordinator (non-profit scientific organization)
10. Marketing Communications Manager/Trade Show Manager (trade magazine publisher)
Part-time jobs while mostly being a SAHM
11. Retail (gift shop)
12. Marketing consultant
13. Freelance writer/editor
14. Retail (clothing)
Currently I work part time as a stylist at Banana Republic. On a good month, my paycheck exceeds my BR credit card bill.0 -
17 - I was a waitress at a diner. That lasted one day bc of a sexual comment made by a customer.
18 - I decided to put my OCD to some use and clean houses.
19 - found a few trustworthy people to work for me cleaning houses and started my own business.
24 - The woman I had been cleaning for became bedridden, and she had no family to help care for her. This is when I found my purpose in life and began caregiving work. Went back to school, got my license, and have been doing it ever since.4 -
1. Golf pro shop on a golf course.
2. Hairdresser. Currently still.
Part time jobs because I’m a work-a-holic
3. Urgent Care
4. Emergency Room Registration.
Currently in college for Operations and Marketing.0 -
Some are multi-role or in conjunction with my primary duty. **
1: Tobacco Primer at an early age
2: Bag Boy at Winn-Dixie
3: Brick Packer right after High School.
4: US Army
5: Personal Trainer
6: (Gets a little Complicated)
Patrol Officer
**SRT Operator (Entry / Assault Team)
**SRT Point
Gang Detective
**SRT Quarter Master / Point
**SRT TEAM Leader
Patrol Sgt.
**SRT TEAM COMMANDER
Patrol Lieutenant
** General Instructor
**Combat Rifle Instructor
**Firearm Instructor
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Paper boy
Fast food cook
Construction laborer
Factory worker
Health insurance company
Gov worker
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Do I hold the record for the shortest job?
I applied to cook at a nursing home. I had a college degree, but needed a paycheck NOW, and it was available. They wouldn't hire me cause I was over qualified, but we had a nice visit, and were friends after that. She called me later that day and asked if I could come over and serve bedtime snacks because none of the regular employees could. I worked long enough to pour about 15 paper cups of Ensure and serve them.0 -
Retired at 65 to take care of my wife full time, previously to this I have had 6 jobs.2
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Are we talking this year or last?
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