How many jobs have you had?

[H8^Machine]

I just turned 20 and have had the following jobs

1 year = paperboy (then about 2 years off till my next job at 16)
1 month = ABC conveyer belt assembler
2 months = Enlightenz floor assistant
19 months = consumer-link telemarketer
8 months = Auckland regional council rates helpdesk
4 months and counting = EDS internal helpdesk

It is my destiny to work on a phone :/

[flic]

video store (while at school)
dairy (while at school)
Retail assistant
Retail Manager (same store total of 6 years)
Welder (3 years on and off)
Call Centre Operator (1 year and counting)

6 jobs in 13 years

[catalystnz]

I'm 25. I've had 17 jobs.

junior librarian - sth waikato
merchandising - Farmers Queensgate
nightfill - Warehouse Lower Hutt
Library depot - Gold Coast
Bakery - Whangarei
Shopfront cashier - Whangarei
Case Manager - Whangarei
winz callcentre - Henderson
Data Entry - Ellerslie
LDD reconciliation - Tokoroa
Reconciliation/distribution - Albany
data entry - newmarket
IPPV project - mt wellington
hotpoints callcentre - eden tce
callcentre courierpost - cbd akl
tvnz for 2.5years! Go me!

there's something missing there cos i've had 17 jobs but I am getting old (25) and can't remember them all.
That's over eight years tho.

[Cinclant]

If you don't count paper runs, I've had 3 jobs and only had 1 job interview between them. Was headhunted for 2 of them.

Foodtown 14-15
Datacom 16-20
Telecom 21-23

Have had lots of different roles within the same companies though.

[MadLep]

-New World - Bio-organic substance/polyethelene containment system transfer technician (bag packer). 1 day. They didn't call me back, and I didn't call them.

-Dad's real estate firm during uni holidays - 3 months.

Government department (same one, but 3 different jobs there)
-IT tech support / helpdesk - 2 years
-Network/Server Admin - 2 years
-Programmer - 1 year.

Then went off travelling for a bit
-Crappy temp jobs in London - 3 months.
-Chalet Host in Italian ski resort - 3 months.

Then moved to Melbourne
-Programmer - 7 months so far.

[ChaosWulf]

Deli Girl at New World ($3.23 an hour! Whoa!)
Petroleum Transfer Technician (Caltex)
Same again for Mobil
Host - Te Papa
Admin/Reception
Phlebotomist

Now work as Technical Assistant at a call centre for yet another of those corrupt multinational petroleum corporations.
Free coffee.

7 jobs in 24 years. Yikes.

[wizardofOz]

Paperboy - 2 years
Shell Petrol Station forecourt bitch - 3 months
Office bitch - 3 months
Retail (Deka) - 2 years
Internet helpdesk analyst - 2 years
Small business network admin/hardware engineer/security analyst - 9 months
2nd level helpdesk analyst/network admin - 5 1/2 months and counting

I'm 22 now, been working since I was 13 or something. I get really bored of staying in the same job, so 2 years seems to be my maximum for now... IT as a career I guess. Not because I enjoy it, but because I'm good at it.

[Rince]

starting with (uni) student jobs;

• summer between 1st & 2nd year: hired hand on a lifestyle/hobby/retirement farm
• summer between 2nd & 3rd year: QC Officer and lab tech in a freezing works
• summer between 3rd & 4th year: rousie in a shearing gang
• summer between 4th & 5th year: My 4th year project extended into a summer job, basically research into making lactose dissolve quicker
• during my 5th year: marking & demo'ing process engineering labs, tut'ing CAD class
• 1st year out of uni: Night shift QC officer in a boning room (7 months)
• 4 years as an industrial paint chemist for then ICI Paints
• 9 months as phone support in london, then another 9 months as 2nd level bunny for same company
• 7 months as a customer service tech (2nd level tech) for a govt department
• 10 months (and counting) on an 18 months secondment from the CST role to a sole onsite support specialist role to another govt ministry
• future (new year) promotion away from helpdesk & my secondment into a permenant role as a network admin (fingers crossed - our boss is keen to promote someone internal)

so thats about 10 jobs in 13-14 years.
I count ICI, London and my current employer as the 'real' ones

[Epox]

Still selling stationary after 3.8 yrs and I still haven't killed myself im doing well anyone need a bic?

[Erazhure]

Well... i didnt realise there were Rulz to this job thing.

so, if we are not counting the jobs that we paid under the table then i change my statement.

Change it to "one. Knife Hand in the meat works in Hawera"

instead of "too damn many"

[edit] infact, you all have me curious now. im gonna go sit down and try and remember how many "jobs" ive had.

[LFC]

Time for an update.

I am up to 10 jobs in 15 years now, 1.5 year average in each job, which I guess overall isn't bad.

Lat 5 years I have had another 3 jobs since the first post, 1 redundancy, which was the job before the one I have now, a real bugger that as I really liked that job

2 redundanices in the 15 years now.

[leadinjector]

hmm..

paper boy (2 years)
petroleum transfer technician (6 months or so)
car valet (6 months)
car valet again (6 months)
labourer (about 3 weeks lol)
fitness instructor (7 or so months and counting)
personal trainer (About a month)

so 7 jobs all up in 10 years.

[Ashley]

Shows the decline in employer retention through the yeasrs

[Evoke]

13 jobs in about 10 years. Five of those part-time while studying. Can't imagine staying in the same job for longer than two years.

[crocos]

And just for a contrast...

Pre "real jobs":

• 8 years clean-up slave, gofer, wiring-in-cramped-places-guy, under-house-guy and general odd-job worker (when not at school) for Dad on various building sites.
• 4 years part-time checkout operator @ The Warehouse
• 2 summers @ CIT building/fixing PCs and reimaging several hundred PCs

"Real" jobs:

• 2 months HelpDesk for Children, Young Persons and Their Families Agency (AKA CYPFA aka Da Gubermint) before I got pissed off at a manager that gave me a dressing down for using ping to see if a server is up.
• 1 year contracting to BNZ's callcentre in several varied roles covering helpdesk, app programming, through to user training.
• May 2000 to current (8-and-a-bit years) analyst programmer

[ChaosWulf]

13 jobs in 10 years. Some part time, some fixed contract.

[herp]

Interesting thread,

labourer for civil engineering firm (16yrs old as a 3 month summer job)
bartender @ prospect - 9 months
cleaner @ fitness centre - 6 months
warehouse bitch - school supplies (3 months summer job X 2 years)
installer bitch - vidak davies (3 months summer job)
bartender @ defontein - 2 yearsish
bartender @ buoy - 6 months
cameraman for grassroots rugby - 8 weeks or so
logger @ sky tv - 2 weeks
alt tv - 2 years

left most of the jobs because of moving or they generally sucked. do a bit of freelance stuff here and there.

[BadNova]

This is my first real job out of university, been here for 7 years so far.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by Juju

Paper boy...urr..dunno how many years..maybe 3?

Gas station - 2.5
Parts delivery - 3mths
Part time cinema work - 2 years
Ski field work in america - 7 mths total over 2 seasons
Temp contract data entry - 2 months
Now into my 3rd month of my current job. My first "real" job.

That current job turned into 18 months. Then I buggered off on my OE where I had 4 or 5 jobs (But they don't count as they were contracts and I didnt give a shit so turned up hungover every second day).

Came back, was in my next job for a month then came to my current where I have been for 18.

So that would be 8 jobs in 8 years.

[StN]

Hmm - let me think.

Paperboy - 18 months
Computer Camp tutor - 2 or 3 fortnights
Trolleyboy / nightfill - 2.5 years concurrent with above
Accounts clerk (summer job) concurrent with above - in competing supermarket chains - 3 months
Government office cadet / clerical - 3 years
Government auditor - 1 year
Government IT support specialist - 3 years
Private sector IT support specialist - 2 years
SOE IT support specialist / DBA / Team lead - 12 years +

[caffiend]

I'm going to ignore pre-'real' jobs; and I've also moved around different roles at the same employers, so I'll group them.

Employer 1 - Large Bank
- Call centre pleb - 1 year
- Better, more specialised call centre pleb - 8 months
- Internal Communications (essentially marketing to staff) - 1.5 years
TOTAL = 2 years, 2 months

Employer 2 - PC Retailer
- Branch Manager - 1.5 years

Employer 3 - IT Firm (UK)
- Direct Sales Guy - 6 months
- Business Development Executive - 2.5 years
TOTAL 3 years

Employer 4 - IT Firm (NZ)
- Account Manager / Client Director - 2 years and counting

Employers 3 and 4 are partner/vendor related, so arguably the same job, it's just that I moved back to NZ.

[SID|DensitY]

hmmm

Bum out of school job, delivering stuff - 2 years (ouch)
Contract programming - 4 years (during this one hired me for over a year, until I got bored and left)
Soft Dev/IT Manager - 2.5 years and counting

[Baal]

over 9000!

[Logik]

Still studying, but starting from when I was like 15:

Supermaket - 1yr
Petroleum transfer technician (credit to leadinjector) - ~3 months lol
Washing dishes at old folks home - ~1yr
Helpdesk support at uni library - 1 yr
Sales and retention at Xnet - 1.5 yrs
Product development at ozone sensor manufacturer - 1 yr (first real engineering job yay)

Hopefully very soon: product development at Fisher and Paykel Healthcare... they should be getting back to applicants this week :D Boo @ driving to East Tamaki for work though.

[Savage]

Pizza Hut while studying - 2 years
Teletech (Xtra support) - 2.5 years
GDC Communications - 2.5 years
Unisys - 2.5 years
BTG - 6 months
Kordia LTD - 3 months
Grouse Mountain (Vancouver) - 6 months
Been with current employer coming up 5 months since getting back from overseas.

Rough figures from around 1997 til present.

[Asriel]

Service deli in supermarket - c. 1 year
Washing dishes at various restaurants - c. 5 years
Summer job processing geophysical data
Summer job reorgansing a companies files and some magnetometer work
Tutoring at uni - 2 years, mostly whilst other jobs were going
Geoscientist - start in 2 months

[mr selfdestruct]

Making pizza's at Pizza Haven was the pinaccle of my career. It's all been down hill since then. Working in an office tapping keys staring at a screen, it's a far cry from the fun of making pizza all day long

[xor]

Datacom: 2years
BTG: 2years
Trigold Software: 7months
Been with current employer for about 2months

About 4 jobs over 5 years

[BF Jax]

Think I'm in a similar situation to Sid, since leaving school:

6 months at British Car Auctions - awsome job ('specially when sports car sales were on), but crap pay/conditions and I knew it was only a fill-in really.
13 years for same company in London (variety of IT jobs, but same company)
4 years for Axon in NZ
2.5 years (so far) for Computer Concepts in NZ

So yeah, 4 full time jobs in coming up for 20 years.

[[Malks] Pixie]

Current job I've been in for almost 4 years - my previous most long standing was 3 years (though I changed positions in the organisation during that time). The rest of it has been temp contracts (for a couple of years) and a few which were less than a year (6 - 9 months mostly).

So maybe 10 jobs over 17 years...

Pixie

[Waldo]

3 jobs according to inland revenue

1 year - auditing
1 year - ihug helpdesk
8 years - TelstraClear (4 different positions)

[Perfk]

since leaving uni, 3 jobs in 9 years
(plus a short temping contract for a few weeks between roles)

[LordP]

Currently in my 10th job in 20 years, only 4 of them have been full time.

An overview -
Pamphlet delivery (1c per pamphlet, woo!)
Computer tutor
Cook/Cleaner for a diner/cafe
Graveyard shift for The Warehouse (3 months over a summer)
Warehouse stock filler (not The Warehouse)
HTML Gimp and PHP programmer (2.5 years, WebMedia)
Contract Javascript programmer (2 weeks)
HTML gimp on contract (2 weeks)
PHP programmer / System Admin (3.5 years, iSERVE)
Ruby on Rails programmer (1.5 years, current, HireThings.com)

[hsh]

I miss my pizza making days.. learned the real thing, making the dough, throwing it in the air, flicking off the dirt on the ones I dropped.. "what the eyes don't see the chef gets away with". Such simple times!

[G1RL]

hmmm....3 proper ones for me

First: (after school) job - Assisting at Old Peoples home = approx 2 years.
Second: Job as Workshop Coordinator = there for just over 5 years.
Third (Present day): job- everything = so far been here 4.5 years and still loving it.... no plans to leave anytime soon.

[chiQ]

2.5 yrs and counting - CSR/domain registry
3.5 yrs - message centre operator - transcribing messages
2.5 yrs - sales and build/repair of PCs
1.5 yrs - designer (web/graphic/GUI)

Two more years in my current job and I'll have a pattern going.

[devilmonkey]

Paid for jobs:
1 yr, Part time, at a shoe company in sales
4.5 yrs, Full Time, in a insurance company
0.5 yrs, Full Time, in IT for engineering company
coming up a year in Investments company

Ive done a lot of unpaid jobs, from event management to massage to dancing around like a monkey for the Dom post and now photography.

Currently looking for a new job in a completely different field..

[Reformed_Quint]

Wow, last time i post in this thread i had had 4 jobs... crazy, now that i just turned 22...

Paperboy,
Shop assistant,
Storesman,
Sales Assistant,
NZ Army,
Petrol pumper,
Radiologist assistant,
Fitter and turner / general engineer,
Welder / gener engineer,
Storesman manager,
Civil Engineer.

11 jobs.... phew.

[Jonas Undrawing]

ok i'll play:
6 months Pizza Hut morning shift (making dough etc)
4 or 5 years corporate audio visual control systems (started as gopher, ended as lead coder guy. Final job was coding Peter Jackson's home theater!... from the office =\ Then i got high with a work mate and tried speed for the first time. cyberbob almost joined us but piked. Good times)
3 years studying jazz / part-time IHC home-support / part-time piano teacher
3 years cycle postie

[Cyberbob]

first job first, going to most recent at the bottom. I'm 25.

1 year part time vendor desktop support engineer
1 year contract code monkey
2 years full time vendor desktop support engineer
3.5 years full time infrastructure support engineer/sys admin/project manager
2 months infrastructure engineer/technology consultant