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    #32
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    At the age of 28, paid work including work experience (school then college), 11 jobs.
    Bar the strawberry picking, all IT related.


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    #33
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I'm on my third job now. The first one lasted about 4 or 5 years though. :)


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    #34
    Awayindahils
    Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭Awayindahils


    I have 7 jobs at 20...sounds a bit horrible.

    Best is promotions work at UCD in September, will be doing it for my third year in a row now. Love that job.

    Worst- call centre. I'm far too apologetic to cold call people for surveys.

    *Leaving Cert. bathroom envigilator person
    *Supermarket
    *Call Centre (While still in supermarket)
    *Promotions (Ditto)
    *Bank work -scanning
    *Homework Corrector
    *Bank work- way more to do than scanning


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    #35
    genericgoon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    19, one job. petrol station stayed there 2 1/2 years. Pay was crap(plus the risk of damn wage deductions ¬_¬) but the job was so easy.


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    #36
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Hmm at a youthful 29, there's 9 jobs:

    * Paper/leaflets round
    * Garage - "fuel injection engineer" (ugh, they used that term)
    * Roches Stores - Working in the old warehouse on Abbey Street (now a parking lot) and then again in the inhouse store
    * Travel agent - Summer/Xmas spent on crappy pay listening to customers book fancy holidays, before online travel became popular
    * IT company - Who employed me for two summers, offered me a job after college, and dropped the offer just before I was due to begin.
    * Technical Writer - for a large e-learning firm. 3 years here.
    * Technical Writer - contract work for a few weeks after being made redundant from previous company
    * Technical Writer - For a few weeks in the IFSC until I finally got out of the bloody industry
    * Large IT consulting firm - Where I passed my 3 year mark last week!


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    #37
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    Jesus, I never realised how many jobs I've worked. 11 before my current one. So that's eh, 12, I guess :P

    milkman
    macdonalds
    subway
    warehouse
    office jobs X3
    Security jobs X3
    Working on a sexual health information phone line


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    #38
    Weidii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Weidii


    I worked part time in an art studio from the age of 14 to 18... best job ever. It's a pity it was my first job cause now every job after it seems sh*t.

    Since then:

    Farm work. (bottle feeding baby goats, woo!)
    Cinema work (free films, woo!)
    Deli (utter crap)
    Boots at christmas.
    Dunnes at Christmas.
    Grocery checkouts in Dunnes.


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    #39
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    since i left college, i have had 3 jobs to do with my qualification, lasting 8 months, 15 months and inow, in my latest job for 19 months. each job has been much better paid as i moved on and enjoyed each one more also.

    before/during college, worked in a pub for a few months one summer and on bulding sites, 9 months in england (2 summers) and then 4 summers with me old lads construction firm.

    so in total,

    6 jobs with 6 different companies, ended on good terms with the other 5.


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    #40
    Ross_Mahon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    Did the papers around my area till 16, Then got a job in Boots and I've been there for 3 years now. I really want to try something else, But I'm afraid i wont get a job or i will not enjoy my new job.


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    #41
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    I've had two, one was in Londis on my school holidays. And the other was as a security guard.

    I just don't like working but the Londis job took the biscuit for being terrible!


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    #42
    Jet Black
    Registered Users Posts: 3,843 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    15 in total (not including places I returned) and Im only 24


    Petermark sweeping hair
    Painted/varnished houses
    Insulated attics
    Cleaned gutters for businesses
    Toilet cleaner in croke park. Worst!!!
    Driveway installation.
    Print finishing company.
    Office worker
    Delivered leaflets door to door.
    Print finishing company again.
    Superquinn.
    Leaving Cert. bathroom envigilator person
    Forklift driver.
    Butcher.
    Superquinn again.
    Foreign Exchange in the airport. Best.
    Working for a bank.


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    #43
    MJOR
    Registered Users Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭MJOR


    Sales Assistant - Clothes shop 16-19
    Sales Assistant Awear 19-21
    Manager Telecoms Retail 21-26
    Manager -Cosmetics 26-28
    Recruitment ( last year) Then tenped for a few months
    Office Manager now.


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    #44
    bills
    Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭bills


    4 jobs at 26, but one was work experience & one was for 6 weeks only.


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    #45
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Farm work (picking schtones and so on for a few summers) :D
    Working in London in an Internet cafe
    Furniture factory worker
    Computer technician
    Telemarketing
    Real estate
    Librarian
    Boards.ie s-mod..oh wait..ssshhhh


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    #46
    dee8839
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭dee8839


    4 jobs, I'm 20.

    Petrol station/shop/deli - 14-17
    Subway "sandwich artist" - 18-19,on and off and hopefully again soon
    Pizza waitress - 3 months last summer in Montauk NY - best job EVER!
    Legal Exec - 8 months work experience...

    What's going to be fun is hunting down a real law job next year. Ugh! Bring back pizzas and tips!


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    #47
    LithiumKid1976
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭LithiumKid1976


    9 so far (that I can think of)
    Worked in a mushroom farm – Family job so cant complain!
    Worked as a roofer – nice work in fine weather
    Cleaned a lot of rusting gates one summer – that was pretty bad

    Worked in Quinsworth (showing my age) – Definitely the worst, especially at Christmas
    Tescos – worked on the till’s, soft job
    2 medical device companies – pretty bad, turn up, tune out, get paid!
    3 I.T’s companies - easily the best, currently working in IT


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    #48
    anthony4335
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭anthony4335


    4 and I am 32, 2 bar jobs during collage, a 2 jobs after collage, the current one I have been in for 11 years ,part of the furniture now. Nice place to work, but I am very tired of shift work, also would not mind a change in job type.
    Best job was my first ,glass collector for a night club, got to meet loads of people and had a lot of Fun. Cannot really say any of my jobs were bad.


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    #49
    A_M101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭A_M101


    Waiting breakfasts and cleaning rooms in a guesthouse. (one summer)
    Usher in a theatre. (a few weeks)
    Sales assistant in a clothes shop. (2 years)
    Director of the horse-riding program at an American summer camp (3 months).
    Currently being paid to "research" in college for the summer.


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    #50
    thefinalstage
    Registered Users Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭thefinalstage


    A_M101 wrote: »
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    Currently being paid to "research" in college for the summer.

    Ah yes, the old research program. An excuse to masturbate all day and get paid for it.


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    #51
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    8, worst one was in a printing facory when i was 17


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    #52
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Christ, I couldn't be bothered counting but I know it's a double figure...


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