How many jobs have you had?

[Helious]

jobs since I left school (16)

4 jobs in 8 years, just started my 5th

[Rocket]

Originally Posted by [BT]MikeMan

3rd job in 10 and a bit years in the industry.

8 years at Continuum/CSC/HP (same job, you have to love buyouts.)

how many ppl did csc have in auckland?

ps 2nd job in 6.5 years being in it and im not 28.

[smudge]

Originally Posted by Baal

over 9000!

"Jobs" not "Tricks".

1 year supermarket.
9 months on the dole.
4 years first programming job.
5 years second programming job.
1 year contract programing.
9 years self employed programming.

[Erazhure]

the dole is a job?... interesting.. :P

jobs i got paid for in order NZ:
junk mail deliverer/lawn mower - ~2 years
pine tree pruner - 3 seasons
farm hand - 3 years
knife trimmer at the meat works - 4 seasons (3 years)

went to Oz:
door to door Salesman - 6 months
TV Extra - 3 days total
Weed dealer - want some bro?
Kitchen hand(6 months) then 2nd chef - same place, 4 years
head chef - new place, 13 months

moved to USA:
labourer/refurbushing a 180 year old house - 6 months
mowing old guys lawn down the road for $50 a pop - 6 months! old rich people rock!
poker player - ever since ~4-5 years

there was more, but ..meh.

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by Erazhure

the dole is a job?... interesting.. :P

jobs i got paid for in order NZ:
junk mail deliverer/lawn mower - ~2 years
pine tree pruner - 3 seasons
farm hand - 3 years
knife trimmer at the meat works - 4 seasons (3 years)

went to Oz:
door to door Salesman - 6 months
TV Extra - 3 days total
Weed dealer - want some bro?
Kitchen hand(6 months) then 2nd chef - same place, 4 years
head chef - new place, 13 months

moved to USA:
labourer/refurbushing a 180 year old house - 6 months
mowing old guys lawn down the road for $50 a pop - 6 months! old rich people rock!
poker player - ever since ~4-5 years

there was more, but ..meh.

What was it that made you think "ya know, I think I can play poker for a living" ? and how much playing is required to actually make a living out of it? 40 hours a week like the rest of us?

[xor]

Originally Posted by devilmonkey

Paid for jobs:
1 yr, Part time, at a shoe company in sales

[crocos]

Peg or a giant foot. Hmm. I almost think Al would prefer the foot...

[devilmonkey]

Originally Posted by devilmonkey

dancing around like a monkey for the Dom post

it scares me that little kids are nearly taller than me

[Toksin]

Originally Posted by Toksin

Several part time jobs, now a full time job.

First job was a doorman/waiter at a restaurant back in South Africa.
Then I was an "Information Officer" at the Lower Hutt info centre from November 2001 to September 2003. During that time I was also a boat groomer for about a month, and a car groomer for a few months, up to September 03. HATED it.

Now since September I've been working fulltime as a sales coordinator...

Almost five years on, and all I can add is another sales coordinator job, air freight coordinator, and now again a sales coordinator (but the best one yet - selling home entertainment etc)

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Rince

• 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)

got the promotion too - more of a systems engineer rather than network admin though.... but still 1000x betterer than the helldesk.

[fidgit]

Hmm

7 Years, One Supermarket, doing a bunch of stuff.
4 Years, Competing Supermarket, doing a bunch of stuff, plus some other stuff, like Compliance. Compliance is fun!! EVERYONE FILL OUT ACCIDENT FORMS OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY COMPLIANCE STICK RRRAAARRGG TEMP CHECKS TEMP CHECKS STAFF INDUCTIONS

(plus I shelved in a library for a few months. Holy shit that was a boring, low paid job. And back then minimum wage meant it barely covered the bus getting to work. Kids and their 12.50 now a days... don't know how lucky...)

I should look into a real job.

[blynk]

Real Jobs = 1. I have just had my 10 years anniversary.

All though the first part was Call Centre part time while I was studying and then 6 months in Call Centre full Time. The rest a data analyst.

Pre Uni Jobs
Paper Boy
Sizzler - 6 months till closed
Pizza Haven - not long

[QWERTY?]

1) paper boy - 3 years
2) paper boy - 3 years
3) new world - 2 years (almost to the day)
4) new world - 1 month (NB: these were different new worlds)
5) restaurant brands call centre - 4 years
6) NZ Steel - student 4 months
7) Talgentra - 6 months (never ever work here)
8) NZSteel - soft eng 26 months (would still be there if i hadn't moved to canada)
9) vfm - soft eng 6 months so far

so 9 jobs from age 9 to verging on 25.

[pk3]

6 jobs in 9 years!

go 69 go!

[BloodDonor]

worked part time for the YMCA running afterschool sports (roller hockey, etc) - stopped when i was doing an architectural drafting course


worked for 9 months at an internet cafe full time, 3 months part time before that.

worked this job for just under 4 years

[mr selfdestruct]

When's CCS going to admit he's a full time forum whore?

[CCS]

Never denied it.


When are you going to realise I'm a sophisticated bot?

[lektronimo]

Been:

Paper delivery in 4th form
School cleaner in 5-6th form
Worked at shoe store from 7th form for 3 years after
Various small jobs in retail for 6 months
Lab assistant/printer last 3 years - current
Sales Rep for a marketing company - current
Camera assist in motion picture - current (as in, three days ago first time)

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by CCS

Never denied it.


When are you going to realise I'm a bot?

Fix't.

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by CCS

Never denied it.


When are you going to realise I'm a sophisticated bot?

CCS is botting!!! Ban!

[Viddy]

Now 28. 8 moderately full time jobs.

Pre 18: Cleaning bakery at $3.14/hour starting at 7:30am on Saturday mornings, so fun! Mowing random peoples lawns for varying amounts of money.

Summer job at internet cafe in Whangarei. 4 months.
Sometime in 3rd year, started working for event company in Auckland doing security for Rugby games. Red badge group. ~6 months on and off.
Following summer, job weeding around orchid plants. 3 weeks of pain for $10.50/hr.
Security Guard for Chubb for 2.5 years while at Uni.
Repair Technician, PC Company. 3 months. Got laid off as company went belly up.
Security Guard, Chubb. Few more months.
Chemist, Fonterra. 1.5 years at Waitoa factory site. 12 hr shifts, 2 days, 2 nights, 4 days off. Learned to be wary of passive aggressive Asian guys.
Started company with brother. Got a contract, couldn't turn it into ongoing work. Used experiences as examples in next job interview. Got job.
Technical Support Analyst, Fonterra. (Essentially, 3rd level IT support) 2 years.
Linux Administrator, University of Waikato. Now 1yr 8months. 1st real coffee machine.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by caffiend

Fix't.

your mean D:

[Logik]

.

[DRa1N]

Tractor/Combine/Chopper Driver
Telemark ski sales man
Loader driver for an ag flying company
Digger driver
Stock truck driver
Goat culler

[Wake]

2 Fulltime Jobs in 5.5 years...
I.T & I.T...

Been unemployed 4 months now, it's great. Figuring out my next move...


Goat culler Drain? Dark....

[LFC]

Originally Posted by Wake

2 Fulltime Jobs in 5.5 years...
I.T & I.T...

Been unemployed 4 months now, it's great. Figuring out my next move...


Goat culler Drain? Dark....

How come you left your last job?

[DRa1N]

Yip, got paid to kill stuff, pretty cool really. Hong Kong airport FTW!

[Wake]

Originally Posted by LFC

How come you left your last job?

Various reasons... Maybe I just went crazy...
Wasn't coping well working for a greedy corporate, the urban life-style, or working in an I.T role...

Working for less than US$150 a month, and enjoying some down-time in South America... Maybe uni next, assuming I don't turn into Colonel Kurtz

.... the horror.....

[LFC]

Looking for job number 11 now

So as of now have had 10 jobs in 16.5 years in IT.

1.65 year average at each job, not good I guess.

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by 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.

I didn't get to 4.5 years. Four years and one month.

Start my new job in 20 days.
4.0 yrs - 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)

[mpx]

I don't remember the exact years.

Manurewa Courier paper route ~ 2 years
New World ~ 2 months (that was *the* pits!)
Some floozy PC shop on the Shore for 6 months or so
Weymouth Intermediate School 6 month contract
---intermission for diploma----
Photographic restoration artist for ~ 2 years
Aangel for ~ 3 years altogether-ish

And now my current job!

Working at the District and High Court in Auckland, just had my one year anniversary July 8. Still loving it, loving the people and loving the work. Yay! Hoping to stay for a good while.

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by chiQ

I didn't get to 4.5 years. Four years and one month.

Aw, too bad.

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Lemme see... I started working when I was about 11 I think...

1) Fruit n' veg store - about 2 years.
2) Burger dude in a fish n' chip joint - 6 months
3) Paper run - 6 months
4) Cafe work at the Intl Airport - 18 months
5) Comp tech - 18 months
6) Dev guy - 10 months
7) Finance company phone dude - 3 months
8) Support tech - 13 months, current.

That's a fair bit of tax.

My support tech run lasted 6 years in the end, not a bad run.

Subsequent to that:

9) Community mental health worker - 12 months
10) Hobo jones student bum (fulltime) - 6 months and counting.

[Reformed_Quint]

Nothings changed for me, SSDD... 2 years later

[ChaosWulf]

Originally Posted by 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
Technical Assistant at a call centre

Hmm. Funny to think those were the more settled times of my life
Not counting any fill-in or temp job that lasted less than 6 months:
Export Co-ordinator for a shipping company
Production Planner
Production Manager
Emergency Medical Dispatcher

Presently looking after a 5 month old.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by Juju

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.

Still here, 3 years later!

[Sarge]

2002-2005 Junior Systems Administrator (Educational Company)
2005-2006 Living in South East Asia - mainly Singapore visiting Malaysia/HK.
2006-2007 6 month contracting for BNZ Technical Specialist.
2007-2010 BNZ Technical Specialist (Wintel 3rd Level)
Present BNZ Senior Technical Specialist (Infrastructure Design)
I'm only 27, but loving the career path I've taken and have only worked for 2 companies really

[a-tech]

Interesting Thread.

Paper boy (2 years)
Bakers Assistant (5 years)
>> inbetween that also worked as a Pump Attendant for like 6 months
Junior VB Programmer/Help Desk at University (1 year)
VB Programmer for Recruitment Company (5 years)
Senior .Net Analyst Programmer and Oracle DBA (4 Years to current)

[Xanatos]

1) Horrible <- Only non-IT job
2) Excellent
3) Good
4) Excellent
5) Horrible
6) Mixed
7) Fantastic <- Current job

[Pimp-X]

I've been in my current job for 11 years, coming up 12.

[BoyWonder]

11 years and 1 month for me.