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Five. I had my first job at 15.One for 12 years and one for 16. I just retired to be with my husband in Montana. My next employer will be myself :) I am 58 and I hope to never stop working at something…I need purpose.
FoolishLuna · 56-60, F
@FoolishLuna thank you for BA 🙏
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@FoolishLuna You are welcome. You deserve it!
WormMan · 56-60, M
9, 10 if you count mowing lawns
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ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Gibbon Interesting.
Cheesecake · 61-69, M
From my first job cutting a rich guy's lawns aged 11, it's ten different employers (including holiday jobs and a brief spell self-employed) but about 15 different roles. Been with my current employer 17 years but nowadays wishing I hadn't 🙄
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
7 part time jobs throughout highschool and college, 3 full time as an adult and a bartending/cocktail waitress job part time as an adult
Adogslife · 61-69, M
11, if you go back to the beginning - cutting lawns for spending money.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Adogslife Wow! I was 16.
Adogslife · 61-69, M
@ProfessorPlum77 11 was the number of jobs. Lawns started at 12-13. By 16 I was painting houses. At 15 I made a ton of money picking tobacco. I used that to go to an Arnold Palmer golf camp in Vermont for three weeks. That’s was about $1,000 back in 1975!
Kiesel · 56-60, M
9 different companies.. one of them 3 different times and had numerous roles
meggie · F
4 and one part time job while i was still at school. I have enjoyed all of my jobs
Secretsmile · 51-55, F
I’m not sure but I started work when I was 14 and have never stopped.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Secretsmile I understand.
darkmere1983 · 46-50, M
none i've never been able to work, and glad i never did.
4meAndyou · F
20, from age 16 on.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@4meAndyou Which were your favorites and which your least favorites?
For me, the two best were my high school summer life guard jobs, and (surprisingly) my Vietnam tour. I don't think I have a least favorite.
For me, the two best were my high school summer life guard jobs, and (surprisingly) my Vietnam tour. I don't think I have a least favorite.
4meAndyou · F
@Heartlander I didn't even COUNT my favorites...which were running a flea market stall on my weekends and going to yard sales to buy stock...and selling my handmade jewelry items at a consignment store!
RSquared · 61-69, M
Nine, if I haven't overlooked anything.
twiigss · M
Let's see, my first job lasted 3 weeks, then at some point I got a job as a dishwasher and had that job for a year, then my parents moved to another state, and I worked for a temp agency going from job to job, but I don't remember them all, so I just class the temp agency as 1 job. Then I ended up at a factory with the temp agency, got hired on full time and got laid off after 4 years there. Then I was a telemarketer for 11 months, worked at Walmart for 5 years, worked in a warehouse for 8 years, got laid off again, went to Burlington Coat Factory for 3 weeks, Best Buy for 1 month, back to a different warehouse for 11 months, and I'm at the place I'm at now, April will be 8 years.
So I've had 11 jobs since.... 1993 probably, give or take a few months here or there. I don't remember the exact dates/times/etc.
So I've had 11 jobs since.... 1993 probably, give or take a few months here or there. I don't remember the exact dates/times/etc.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@twiigss Thank you.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
14 .... oops, make that 16.
PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F
Seven, I think.
Bleak · 36-40, F
Two jobs.
KingofBones1 · 46-50, M
Four
poisonouscupcake · 22-25, F
2, or 3 if you count helping at my dads business when i was little since he did pay me a little
but my first job beside that was as a pool girl during a few summers n then my job now at a law firm
but my first job beside that was as a pool girl during a few summers n then my job now at a law firm
dsrice10 · 56-60, M
6
About 14 that I can recall. First job was cleaning a hair salon, worked as a nanny during uni. At an Australian themed pub in the UK during some years abroad.
CestManan · 46-50, F
I would guess 20, ranging from short-term temp jobs up to my last job which somehow lasted 13 years.
I do not stick around jobs I do not like.
I do not stick around jobs I do not like.
Shybutwilling2bfriends · 61-69
5
exexec · 61-69, C
9 real jobs, not counting summer jobs as a teen. Only 2 jobs over the last 32 years before retirement.
plungesponge · 41-45, M
About the same. The longest job I held was 13 years though, so it's I'll stay if I like a place
LadyBronte · 56-60, F
9 if you count my first silly little jobs when I was a kid.
scorpiolovedeep · 51-55, M
Just 2:
Engineering to IT to Engineering
Engineering to IT to Engineering
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@scorpiolovedeep Interesting.
Jonjdw · 51-55, M
5 if you I count the one I had for one day.
BabyDolls · 22-25, T
2 but 3 if you include my apprenticeship
Different · 31-35, M
More then 20 lol
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Different At your age, that is quite a few. Were some of them parttime jobs during high school?
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
If I include all the various employers about 8, but I've only worked in two industries - retail 1984 to 1990 and railways 1987 to now. Done shiftwork since 1990. Changed employer in the rail industry a half-dozen times.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@zonavar68 Thank you.
ronisme1 · 61-69, M
7, three of them at once
seaglass · F
3 places of work total, but technically I did 4 different jobs as I was promoted along at the 2nd place - snack bar, box office, projectionist and assistant mngr at a movie theater
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@seaglass Impressive.
seaglass · F
@ProfessorPlum77 Thanks!
Only 2 haha
midnightrose · F
10
Justenjoyit · 61-69, M
One employer, with 5 different jobs within that organisation in 44 years.
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
Around 10
I got stuck with temp agencies out of high school in 1989, big, HUGE mistake,counting those, about 150 jobs, some for barely a day or a week.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@NativePortlander1970 Wow!