Jobs and career changes

[Wren]

How many jobs and career changes have you had during your working life ?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Ten distinct jobs within the same company over a 31 year period.

All of the positions were related to accounting, investments, consumer finance, and information technology.

Today I would not qualify for any of the positions that I held due to a lack of formal education.

Stay in school kids!!!

 

[hollydolly]

OMG.. a lot while I was young, and just left school... and then it steadied off...

errm.. trying towork it out , I think 11 in total but most of those were before I was 25 while I was trying to find my niche....

 

[hearlady]

I would say 3. I started in culinary arts, then retail, and now the hearing industry.
Culinary arts was VERY hard work, long hours.
Retail let me work convenient hours when my kids were in school.
I went into hearing aids when the nest started emptying as a career.

 

[StarSong]

14 jobs, 8 before the age of 25. A couple of career changes but mostly one job evolved into the next.

 

[RadishRose]

3. Two in retail, then insurance but with several types of jobs within insurance.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Apart from holiday jobs and a short spell as a school janitor after I quit IT, I've only worked for two companies - although I did change jobs within them.

 

[jujube]

I worked a lot of temp agency jobs over the years, so I'd be hard put to count them up if each job counts separately. I've worked nine places that I would consider permanent jobs, from two to six years each.

 

[Manatee]

17 places full time including my time in the Navy. After I retired I worked in a 6 month seasonal job for 3 years.

This was in 3 states plus 2 in the Navy.

 

[Grampa Don]

Just counting the ones after I got out of school and was on my own, three if I don't count my Navy time. Thirty years were with one company.

Don

 

[C'est Moi]

A couple of part-time gigs till I finished school. Two professional career paths; left the first when my son was born and didn't return to the workforce until he was 3. Worked as a senior systems analyst for a major corporation and up through the ranks for 28 years. Interesting, challenging career and now a very comfortable early retirement.

 

[Butterfly]

Pretty much the same career path all my working life.

 

[treeguy64]

Delivery boy (6 mos.), grocery clerk (3 mos.), drug store cashier (2 mos.), musician/ bandleader (30 yrs.), lifeguard (3 mos.), dog collar factory worker (8 hrs.), chem factory worker (2 mos.), department store stocker (6 mos.), fountain room manager at a deli (1 yr.), cab driver (4 yrs.), veterinary assistant (3 mos.), janitor (3 mos.), interstate trucker (6 mos.), University research assistant (6 mos.), pizza restaurant cook (4 mos.), door to door salesman (4 mos.), Greek restaurant counter man (4 mos.), on the road diamond salesman (1 yr.), vending company manager (6 mos.), fast food manager (1 yr.), furniture salesman (6 mos.), opinion pollster (1 yr.), father (last 32 yrs., ongoing), data entry worker (2 hours.), legal researcher (1.5 yrs.), real estate investor/landlord (37 yrs., ongoing), high school teacher/wrestling coach (2 yrs.), tattooist/body piercer/shop owner (13 yrs.), newspaper stand stocker (8 hrs.), Certified Arborist/company owner (13 yrs., ongoing).

Note: The short-term jobs, as above, were catch as catch can gigs while I worked my way through school, summer jobs, and jobs I did, on the side, as I grew my major businesses. My career gigs were: musician, real estate investor/landlord, tattooist/body piercer/shop owner, and Certified Arborist/company owner. In truth, of my short-term jobs, I really liked cab driving a great deal, and would go back to it if I could afford to trick out a new ride with a bullet-proof partition and in-car PA system, like I had while I worked for Yellow Cab, in Chicago. Thing is, I'll be moving to a small town in the next two years, or so, and that kind of gig won't be happening, for me, at that time.

 

[WheatenLover]

Jobs: fast food worker, retail store clerk (clothing, department store, furniture store, sunglass store), costumer of plays and events, waitress (24 hour diners, Shoney's), cable tv videotape technician (at the beginning of cable), Owned a maid and janitorial service, but the two owners did all the hands-on work. Owned a bookkeeping service. Careers: cost accountant, college professor, attorney, mother

 

[WheatenLover]

sorry double post

 

[toffee]

had about 8 from school onwards … inlc being a mother to 2 boys .. but at college now doing a new skill pottery course -just passed first level …

 

[moviequeen1]

I've had 3
The first job was working for a company called'Title Guarantee'.I delivered searches to most of the law offices in downtown Buffalo lasted 2 yrs
My 2nd job was working at a local law firm for 3 yrs,in the mail room.My co-workers and I would be 'gofers' did everything for the lawyers e.g. personal business for some of them,delivered their mail,get their lunches,did lots of copying for their clients. They were so cheap, instead of hiring pros to move their furniture,we had to do it.One good thing,I learned was how a law firm operates.I thought about following in my dad's footsteps but decided against it
My last job,I volunteered for 1yr 1/2 at local hospital in pharm dept until I was offered a part time pharm tech postion.I worked 3 days/wk for 27 yrs,.I took early retirement in 2011 Sue