How many jobs have you had since school? too many?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-07-2014 07:29PM

I must have gone wrong somewhere as I only had one employer for 42 years. I did plenty of different jobs as I started as a gopher and worked my way to senior management through 6 or 7 departments.

I loved every minute of it!

mojesius · 06-07-2014 07:46PM

11 jobs since I left school 13 years ago, although most were part time while I went to college. Most were in various restaurants/ bar work, as well as promotions job, another job involving drinking a watermelon filled with cocktail every night for 3 months in Cyprus, then i was an office goafer, a call centre supervisor, and my current job, which i suppose you'd describe as internal technical support. As long as i dont have to talk to customers again (i have been in customer facing jobs for 16 years), I'm grand. I'm in the company 3.5 years, in my current job a year. I'll probably leave next year and do a bit of travelling, then hopefully do something new.

ShiftStorm · 07-07-2014 04:05PM

I'm 29, had my first job at 14 and since then I've been a:
babysitter
shop worker
deli assistant
customer sales rep in a bank
tour guide
TEFL teacher
French grinds teacher
secondary school substitute
student support worker
bicycle-taxi driver
office manager twice
administrator thrice (3 years in my current role)

Spot the odd one out!

Mr. CooL ICE · 07-07-2014 04:22PM

Restaurant cleaner (summer)
Electronics contractor assistant (part time)
Factory worker (summer)
Factory worker (summer)
IT intern (summer)
IT intern (summer)
Factory worker (summer)
Factory worker (summer, same place as above)
Take away delivery driver
Call centre
Developer

I also worked as a bank porter, barman and on a building site before I finished school. I'm 29.

oak5548 · 07-07-2014 05:06PM

0 jobs since 2011

Maphisto · 07-07-2014 05:15PM

Left school in 1976 - 4 jobs:

Banking
Civil Service
Car Jockey for a Casino
Post Office

The Peanut · 07-07-2014 05:21PM

Maphisto wrote: »

Left school in 1976 - 4 jobs:

Banking
Civil Service
Car Jockey for a Casino
Post Office

Would have loved to question you on job 3 whilst interviewing for job 4. Job 3 so out of sync with other 3 jobs.

Corruptedmorals · 07-07-2014 05:25PM

4, now on job 5.

Retail Dunnes
Retail/admin Dunnes
Retail Penneys
Medical admin emergency dept
Medical secretary private clinic

I am out of school 7 years, only the latter is legit full-time. I graduated after job 1, retrained after job 3 as the degree wasn't helping. Also a combined total of just less than 2 years not working. Doing okay now for the worst affected age group of the recession, finally.

looking_around · 07-07-2014 06:01PM

3, since school, but one was a temp and don't really count.

x-mas work argos.
Part time at a PC/phone repair shop.
Part-time camchat.

Going back to college in September in hopes of actually getting something decent/respectable. That isn't computer work because I can't do that full-time, fecking awful.

PizzamanIRL · 07-07-2014 06:03PM

I can count all the jobs on my non existent third hand.

Chattastrophe! · 07-07-2014 06:16PM

Wash-up person in a restaurant
Waitress in a coffee shop
Waitress in a different coffee shop
Sales assistant in an old ladies clothes shop
Customer service person in the local county council (mostly dealing with housing complaints)
Finance assistant
Auditor
Finance assistant again

Also various unofficial stuff like babysitting and market research over the years.

TerrorFirmer · 07-07-2014 06:17PM

Only had 3 jobs since leaving school, but have been employed the full ten years since that. 3rd is sort of shakey though. Will be looking for job no 4 soon.

Maphisto · 07-07-2014 06:37PM

The Peanut wrote: »

Would have loved to question you on job 3 whilst interviewing for job 4. Job 3 so out of sync with other 3 jobs.

I see what your getting at. I generally left that off of CVs and stuff. It was evenings part time and I did it while still in the civil service so no gaps

It was great fun. Our dream was for 2 Rollers to come in together and once the owners had disappeared inside we'd race them round the block

Maphisto · 07-07-2014 06:38PM

looking_around wrote: »

3, since school, but one was a temp and don't really count.

x-mas work argos.
Part time at a PC/phone repair shop.
Part-time camchat.

Going back to college in September in hopes of actually getting something decent/respectable. That isn't computer work because I can't do that full-time, fecking awful.

Is camchat what I think it is?;)

Miss.Mayhem · 07-07-2014 06:49PM

I've had 5 jobs, all full-time, since I left school 13 years go. I was in one job for over 7 years and I've done some volunteer work too.

--LOS-- · 07-07-2014 07:00PM

I think 3/4, temping in the summer. Spend most of my time paying people so I can do work, i.e. studying :P

looking_around · 07-07-2014 07:59PM

Maphisto wrote: »

Is camchat what I think it is?;)

Most likely :cool:

Maphisto · 07-07-2014 08:01PM

looking_around wrote: »

Most likely :cool:

Kewl :cool:

InReality · 07-07-2014 08:20PM

3 jobs since college ~15 years. 1 year ( fired ! ) , 6 years and 6 years plus about a year unaccounted for

Frigga_92 · 07-07-2014 08:36PM

6 jobs since I left school 9 years ago.
Couple of short contracts, next one for 3 years, next one for 15 months (made redundant

), next one for 6 months and then I moved across country and in my current job 3 and a half years.
Not bad and they've all been in the same area, just different types of law, so I've built up a load of experience in small offices and the biggest in the country.

McChubbin · 07-07-2014 08:58PM

*counts on hand* Hmmm.... 4 in the last 9 years since I left school. Most were part-time and largely retail/hospitality. NEVER AGAIN.

Wompa1 · 07-07-2014 09:18PM

4 jobs in over 7 years..since I got out of college.

Ilyana 2.0 · 07-07-2014 09:35PM

Just the one

I've had the same part-time job since transition year; I've only one year left in college so unless my hours take a nose-dive, there seems little point in leaving.

Six years is a long time to work anywhere, I'm so fed up!

leinsterdude · 01-03-2016 01:49PM

Yikes, am I mad, I find it so hard to settle in a job...

Since 1992

Butcher supermarket
Butcher shop
Butcher supermarket
Food factory
Butcher small supermarket
Car parts factory
Giftware factory
Food factory
Sales junior rep
Sales relief rep
Sales national role
Sales business development
Sales business development
Technical sales
Brand manager
Sales business development
Sales/General manager........but getting itchy feet and its only been one year.....what am I at ? any advice ?? maybe i need to just set up my own business, I really dont know.

CiDeRmAn · 01-03-2016 01:52PM

Since school ended in 1990 I was in college for a year followed by going and becoming a nurse in the intellectual disability discipline and, since finishing that, I've worked in a large north Dublin residential centre since then, with a change in role, from nurse to nurse manager, in 2008, and numerous different posts on different units along the way.
But, yeah, I'm in the same field now since 1990, so that's 26 years....
Still, only 11 years to retirement!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 01-03-2016 01:53PM

Just one right up to retirement. And what a great job it was!

Menas · 01-03-2016 01:57PM

Three jobs since my career started. Lots of roles, but just 3 jobs.

Mint Sauce · 01-03-2016 02:12PM

9 since the age of 18. One of them was part time whilst still at school which then turned to near full time after finishing. A further one was whilst at college which I retuned to three years after finishing school. A third was whilst completing a full time course. In nearly twenty years have spent just over 18 of them in paid work or education.

Have also had 3 paid jobs whilst at school aged 16 to 18.

Only breaks were for a couple months just after I moved to Ireland, a second which I left a job that I was not happy in, and a third after I was made redundant.

01-03-2016 02:14PM

Kash Lazy Bicyclist wrote: »

Just one right up to retirement. And what a great job it was!

Always nice to hear of long term fulfillment in employment. Represents a two way system of trust

Rarity nowadays.

I haven't had as much luck in proper jobs. Done medical device factory work for 3 and a half years in 2006 after 5 years at a software program course that I didn't pass. Lost the job in 2009, returned to college in 2010, got the level 8 in 2014 and started a temp contract in a bank call centre in Oct 2014. I've been there since, contract up in 3 weeks and haven't heard any update on a new offer yet. Ah well, hope springs eternal

01-03-2016 02:15PM

Glass collector, bartender, doorman, landscaper, o2, clerical work during summers in uni, pharmacist.

How many jobs have you had since school? too many?

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