Longest time unemployed

Never worked for a oil company for 11 years right out of college then started my own company

I haven’t had job since November 2019. I started working when I was 12. Always had at least one job, usually two plus little side hustles. Worked full time through college. I busted my ass and learned a lot, but I just get bored after I get really good at something.

I quit working to help take care of my mom. I had just paid off my house so I thought I’d take it easy for a bit while I could still spend time with her.

After she passed I sold my house for 3x what I paid and I’ve been traveling until her husband left her house. So now I’m back fixing what he destroyed. It’s annoying and hurtful, but also, I have lots of knowledge from other jobs so I’m able to fix it up myself mostly. So that’s been my job. And also full time Mom. Last year I roadschooled.

So yeah I never really got to relax like I wanted, and I’m sure I look terrible on paper now, and I just don’t care.

I don’t even care where I work, it’s all the same. Slave your life away to someone who gets most the money and treats you like disposable goods 🤷🏼‍♀️

My son and I might open a pizza shop once we get settled again. Who knows.

Working used to be so important to me. I was raised by two workaholics. But they both died at 66. That’s not the story I want for this life.

It's kinda fuzzy but the company I worked for was shutting down and I was the last one out the door. There was a week or two that I only worked a few hours getting loose ends wrapped up. I already had someone who had been trying to hire me for several months but he didn't have his shop ready. He did manage to line me up a week or two of work with someone else while I waited. Maybe there was a week or two at the most that I didn't have anything. By the time that job ended I was already in the process of starting my own business and had some work lined up.

Couple of months during a recession

From graduation in June 1977 to November that year when I got my first post-uni job. Never been out of work since until I retired at the end of 2017.

So do you understand now what I do so we build the pads for the drilling rigs then say 1520 years down the road that well is not producing oil a down hole company will come pull the pipe and I’ll come in and do the reclamation put the land back exactly the way it was better for the most

It was 3 months after I decided to punt on my own biz and went back as a full time employee. Essentially, it was a 3 month process from interview #1 to offer at the place I ended up. Ridiculous, considering I worked there before.

I haven't had paid employment for 13 years. Stay at home mum. I miss it in many ways.

I was lucky. I always had a job until 5 years ago when I became disabled and now, I'm living on my retirement. So, I guess you can say 5 years.

It only happened to me twice, and then only for less than a week each time.

14 months from August 2013-October 2014.

Two weeks.

One month for me.

It's by definition only 21weeks.
Non employed from blacklist?
17 years.

3 months

I was never on unemployment but over a year or so after I quit my white-collar programming job in 2017. I had a lot of money saved up from it and I didn't have much in the way of expenses, so it lasted a while. I also had a very different mindset towards what I was willing to accept taking on as work back then. I had a degree in Computer Science so I felt like that should mean I should get a suitable white-collar job replacement for my programming job somewhere, but it never materialized. Eventually gave up and did manual labor for a while, once I was actually able to get hired on for it.