How Many Jobs In Your Adult Life Have You Had?

I've worked at 9 different companies and had 12 different jobs (some companies I worked at two different jobs during my tenure.) I worked for one company twice and was a contractor for it once as well. My longest time at one company was a little over 10 1/2 years. I was a software engineer for about 16 years and have been working in technical support for over 20 years.
 
MarciKS said:
Could be a couple more on there I forgot.
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I'm sure I've forgotten as many jobs as I've had
Did a lot of running around
Never a problem getting work, no matter what city
Hell, most the time I held two jobs....one time three

I wasn't gonna, but I'll repost a job I have fond memories of;

When we moved closer to town, I got an evening job at a rather posh restaurant.
The Hillvilla.
It worked well with my junior year schedule.
Work till 11pm…sleep through class…if I went.

Washing pots and pans.
My first day, I ran a sink full of water, hot and cold.
The owner, Ed Palaske, reminded me of Mr McGoo, kindly, gently turned off the cold water.
Hot water and steam came outta the tap.
‘We don’t use cold water. It’s not so sanitary.’
His forearms looked like lobsters…no hair, red, much like a burn victim.
Lou, the cook, doing a great impression of Ed Asner, just leaned on the counter and grinned.
Damn, I’d never known hot water up till then.
The crab pots and pans, from making crab louie, did loosen up better.

Then I graduated to the salad bar.
Much like a bar tender.
The waitresses would come up, order, and I’d prep, sip a coke and munch on crackers.


This one waitress, guess she was in her late thirties, would tell me dirty jokes and chit chat when ordering.
She had blonde hair, all pulled back, like Kim Novak in Vertigo…..rather buxom….like my dad’s Police gazette gals.
Tight white blouse
Tight black skirt
I had fantasies about her while I was sleeping in class.

Sometimes a dignitary would call me over,
‘Hey sport, here’s a buck, get me a pack of Winstons outta the machine….keep the change.’

If a patron didn’t like their meal, one of us would get it.
Damn, it was good.

After my shift, and the upstairs was closing, I’d head downstairs and get another coke from the bar, and if lucky, I’d chat more with Kim Novak, and watch her sit there, undulating.

I think that was my best high school job.
I know it was.
 
Gary said
‘I'm sure I've forgotten as many jobs as I've had
Did a lot of running around
Never a problem getting work, no matter what city’

Same here, one memorable time I started a new job in a Sportswear store, nearly died of boredom by lunchtime and told the manager it wasn’t for me, calling in at an Employment Agency on the way home I got an interview and by 2.30 pm was working as a Bookkeeper for a florist, half the hours, twice the pay, I stayed for a few years 😉
 
20 or so. the days of working one job for 30 years are long gone for most people. My first job out of high school lasted 21 years. Next was 5 years. Then 4 years or less for the rest of them.
 
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Over my career, I was acquired by four different companies and worked at a variety of jobs until one day a very big fish decided to spit me out!
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"The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling." - Lord Varys, Game of Thrones
 
I guess I've been a blue collar worker all my life.
worked with dad. Learned framing, trim work, plumbing, electrical, and cement work. (skills that came in handy in later years). :)
While in high school, worked in a plastics factory night shift. (4 to midnight). On weekends, worked as a pump jockey at a shell station.
worked on a dairy farm. (haying, milking,etc).
logger. (mostly pulp logs some hardwood).
ran a jackhammer in a granite quarry (really fun job in winter) nothing like 20 below zero, standing on a 2 foot ledge jack hammering holes for dynamiting with nothing but a 300 foot drop to the bottom of the quarry. 😲
Dump truck driver on interstate construction, and also ran a powered jackhammer on same job.
Military gave me my worst job. (killing). :(
short order cook in a greasy spoon joint.
leased a gas station 2 bay, 3 pumps. did mechanic work and sold used cars on the side.
mechanic for a state garage.
moved west and worked as a pump jockey (again) until I landed a better job.
maintenance foreman at a precast concrete plant.
mobile mechanic J.I. Case company.
heavy equipment mobile mechanic for independent contractor.
heavy equipment mobile mechanic for power-water company in Ca.
After retirement, got bored, so bought a tow truck and went to work again on police rotation.
Of course, during all this time, I also built lot's of hot rods, race cars and drag cars. (y)

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Just 3. I joined the USAF after high school, and spent 7 years there. After that, I took a job at a Denver car dealer, selling cars, for about 4 months, while looking for an honest job. After a couple of interviews, I was hired by IBM, and spent 34 years working on data processing equipment, and large computers. It was a good "working" life.
 
1960 circa
I thought pumping gas was an idea career-you know how many dullards have
the same idea?
Washed dishes for one day as a :p 'pot man' in a military chow hall,
leased to civilians. 😳 As bad as roofing in Texas in August-sweat...

'Pot Man' in the army was much easier
 
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I had 3
1. delivering searches to local law firms in downtown Buffalo in early 70's
2. working as a 'gofer' at a local law firm.I learned the ins/outs how a law firm operates,at the time I thought I might follow in my dad's footsteps,he was a lawyer{not at the firm where I was working} I thought about becoming a paralegal,decided against it I was there '78-"82 I learned from one of the partners { a classmate of my dad's at Univ of Buffalo Law School} NYTimes had a daily crossword puzzle,I became hooked doing them
3.a part time pharmacy tech at local hospital '84-'11 volunteered for 1yr 1/2 in pharm dept before I was hired
My job was to deliver narcotics to all the nursing units/speciality labs,alot of walking,bending,paper work.I was there for 27 yrs until I had enough,took early retirement in 2011
 
Very interesting, now I ask about your parents-the same question. My dad worked for Chicago Bridge & Iron and that was it. My mom never worked after marrying my dad. As I understood he told her she will never have to work another day after they marry. Before they married she was a waitress in a blue collar restaurant where my dad saw her and told his friends he was going to "marry that gal". True story.
 

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