How many changes of job have you had?

[gbb]

Paper boy.
@16, Little Chef, waiting tables and cooking, then foolishly turned down a trainee managers offer.
@16/17, labourer, building trade
@17,landrover driver, cable layer and explosives detonator,(coal surveying in the Vale of Belvoir)
@18, a couple weeks packing straw into bags on a farm. Piece work, i earned fook all.
@18, a couple different labouring jobs in the building trade.
A short time self employed somewhere in there as well.
@19, Storeman in an engineering dept within a food processing factory. Progressed through 23 years to buyer, administrator for the dept until redundancy.
@42ish, onto the tools as a maintenance engineer (training). Within 5 years i was working short term each year in Cyprus, Spain, Uruguay, Egypt on the companys equipment.
@52, into my current company, same job but factory based.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

School holiday job: cleaning fish tanks in a pet importers
University holiday job: door-to-door campaigning and lobby work for Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group in DC.
Post-university: zoological research, administration for Oxfam and other smaller charities and plenty of unemployment, ran a market stall, worked behind a bar, roadied for bands, then taught English in a a high school in Japan.
During MA: Research Assistant
During PhD: Lecturer
Post-PhD: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lecturer, Reader (all in the same university) now Associate Professor and national Research Chair (in a different university in a different country).

+ plenty of voluntary work over the years, including running a local credit union and teaching English to refugees.

 

[MontyVeda]

Diesel fitter (apprentice)
Rides operator (on a fairground, not a travelling one)
Shelf stacker
Injection moulder (got sacked due to pulling 11 sickies in 4 weeks)
Maker of things (freelance, unpaid or underpaid)
Fabricator (double glazing factory)
Shop assistant
Store assistant
SEO
Web design
Copy writer
Web design
Printer / office assistant
Shelf stacker

 

[gbb]

In my 23 year long job, we had a good laugh, brilliant place to work, brilliant people up for a laugh.
One of them said to me....
'How long have you been here ?'
'20 years'
'What did you start as ?'
'Storeman'
'And what are you now ?'
'Administrator, storeman and buyer'
He smirked and said....
'So you're a glorified storeman then....done well havnt ya'

 

[speccy1]

Spent 2 years fitting car alarms/audio after leaving uni 1999/2000 - was stressful and crap money,
Got an electronics job in a factory - lasted 3 months and got made redundant,
Then got a job in Bristol repairing medical equipment, relocated after 18 months back to Devon and been doing the same job ever since.

And that`s my career summed up..............

 

[screenman]

32 jobs in the first 4 years, I have worked for myself for the last 40 years.

 

[grumpyoldwoman]

Shop assistant
Factory worker
Bar staff
Supervisor/in charge of kids parties in a pub chain
Assistant pub manager
Senior bar staff/kitchen member
Contract cleaner
Chef
Now I'm what's known as "catering staff" ie waitress/barista/sometime kitchen member/till staff

 

[Davos87]

Paper boy,
Painter & Decorator- after apprenticeship,
Wall & floor tiler,
Steel Worker,
Van Driver,
Auxiliary Nurse in Mental Health Unit,
4 Years at Uni,
Teacher,
Retired.

 

[ACS]

At School - butchers assistant
Apprentice butcher
at 17 - RAF for 28 years
Self employed - IT contract engineer - 6 months
IT / network / telephone and kettle management engineer - Independent Education Sector - last 13 years.

 

[Brandane]

I have worked for myself for the last 40 years.

I work for myself too.... In the sense that I'm certainly not doing it for anyone else!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Paper boy
window cleaner
worked on sites in my school hollidays
Apprentice auto body and mechanic for 3yr..Garage and YTS.
went self employed..been running my paving business for too long..
stainless steel polishing 4 mths when i had no work, filthy job but ok


i want a new job...

 

[Globalti]

It depends if you include holiday jobs as a student. If you do, I've had dozens because I used to work for an industrial staff bureau. Of salaried jobs I've had only three:

1980 to 1985 - Export sales in London.
1985 to 1987 - Sales in Paris
1988 to present (and certainly to retirement in 2022) - Export sales in Manchester.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I have worked for myself for the last 40 years.

You've never mentioned that before.

 

[Bromptonaut]

1978-2013 Civil Servant*
2013-14 Early retired man of leisure
2014 on Volunteer/employee at Citizens Advice.

* One career/employer but probably 15 different jobs across three grades.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've lost track.