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How many jobs have you had in your life?

Danishfurniturelover

Danishfurniturelover

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Came up on another forum I am on and it got me to thinking just how many different jobs I done.

Left school at 14 went to work for the old man

14 years old labouring dry liner for 20 years.

19 I took on evening jobs for extra money working in bars and clubs in the evenings and weekends.

23 Would deliver the Evening standard for a company called Dawson News round Croydon.

34 Brought Locksmith franchise and ran it well for 10 years before selling

44 went and did some work for thompson holidays checking maintenance in hotels in Tunisia for 18 months.

46 Taxi Driver in Chichester.

48 Started a terribly unsuccessful micro brewery.

50 Just starting a job for a company called av trade in the aviation industry and will be doing deliveries 3 times a week to Heathrow.

Also done quite a lot of property conversions and trade most weekends on Betfair.

I count that as 8 different jobs in 36 years, maybe professions is better way of saying it as I worked on loads of different building sites and pubs and clubs when doing the bars.

So how many different jobs you lot had in your life?
 
on my fifth, but it's also where I worked for my 3rd, been with this company for over a third of my life now

all IT jobs, started as a trainee back in 98
 
17 left school on 9th May 2001

17 joined an insurance broker on 14th May

19 joined William Hill after 3 weeks unemployment

30 joined an independent bookmakers as manager.

3 weeks unemployed in 14 years and that was only because William Hill told me my start date was in August but messed me about causing the 3 week delay. Before this 2 weeks absence and 4 week sickness to come post operation which will total 6 weeks sick leave I have been sick from work on 3 occasions in those 14 years too something I'm proud of.

Sorry for the boasting :)
 
Three jobs really

Business Risk at one of the big four

Currently working in Risk Advisory at a top six firm as a Manager

Not sure if it counts as a job or a hobby but also own my own Property Development/property investment company which is kind of a side gig that ive been working on since 2002... I'll most probably take on full time when I hit 35 - would love to retire when I hit 40 but highly doubt it.
 
Kwik Save part time whilst at school
Labourer for a breif period after i got booted out of 6th form
Electrician since i was 17 (13 years now)

Wish i had stuck with education, think i would have enjoyed attempting an Engineering degree but i couldn't really get on with school and didn't have any direction at the time. Enjoy my job though so things could be worse
 
Contracting most of my life. Went perm after credit crunch. In my 12th job at 34. Worked for some real big fish doing IT mostly in Finance before. Settled now in big Pharma.
 
billyiddo said:
Kwik Save part time whilst at school
Labourer for a breif period after i got booted out of 6th form
Electrician since i was 17 (13 years now)

Wish i had stuck with education, think i would have enjoyed attempting an Engineering degree but i couldn't really get on with school and didn't have any direction at the time. Enjoy my job though so things could be worse
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Never too late. Hated school/college, couldn't wait to leave. Got to a point where I wanted to learn and did a day release degree in my mid thirties.
 
About 18 different jobs, I think. Everything from pizza delivery guy, via switchboard operator, phone salesman and bank clerk, to journalist/photographer which is where I am today.

Quite a variety there, actually.
 
14-16 worked in a pub kitchen
17-20 in food retail
20-22 supervised a photo lab
22-26 admin and then data protection compliance (wish I had carried that forwards)
26-27 crappy admin job
27-31 operations and admin process manager
32 moved to California and managed an office
32 moved back here and now temping doing performance reporting

Have done a bit of photography here and there, now need to work out how to make the images I take (rather than weddings) into some form of income stream
 
monkeybarry said:
14-16 worked in a pub kitchen
17-20 in food retail
20-22 supervised a photo lab
22-26 admin and then data protection compliance (wish I had carried that forwards)
26-27 crappy admin job
27-31 operations and admin process manager
32 moved to California and managed an office
32 moved back here and now temping doing performance reporting

Have done a bit of photography here and there, now need to work out how to make the images I take (rather than weddings) into some form of income stream
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Can I ask why you moved to California and came back so soon? I'm seriously looking into moving to the states
 
3 daytime jobs for me, all in the Building Trade.
First one straight from college for 4 years
2nd one for exactly a year then got made redundant
Current job, been with Travis Perkins now for 28 years

Used to DJ at nights during the 80s at the local skating rink (good times)
 
paxtonwolf said:
3 daytime jobs for me, all in the Building Trade.
First one straight from college for 4 years
2nd one for exactly a year then got made redundant
Current job, been with Travis Perkins now for 28 years

Used to DJ at nights during the 80s at the local skating rink (good times)
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What are Travis Perkins like to work for? I have used them a few times over the years had a trade account with them.
Like you spent most of my life in the building trade, think I was well suited to it but I do sometimes wonder if I should have done something else. My dream job would be a sports photographer. I have this dream where I am following the tour de France round on the back of a motorbike and taking pictures. Not sure how you would even get into something like that, probably a bit late now anyway.
 
japenesegardenlover said:
What are Travis Perkins like to work for? I have used them a few times over the years had a trade account with them.
Like you spent most of my life in the building trade, think I was well suited to it but I do sometimes wonder if I should have done something else. My dream job would be a sports photographer. I have this dream where I am following the tour de France round on the back of a motorbike and taking pictures. Not sure how you would even get into something like that, probably a bit late now anyway.
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Good firm to work for. They look after their staff, plenty of benefits. Very big on Health and Safety in the workplace. The big plus has to be job security, worked for an independent Merchant previously and they went bust, I doubt I will have that problem with TP. I will stay with them until I retire, providing they want me.
 
WestBerkshire said:
Can I ask why you moved to California and came back so soon? I'm seriously looking into moving to the states
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Hello mate, thought I'd PM yourrather than hijack the thread.
There are some US based posters than have a totally different views of US living so you might want to talk to them too (Clevelandspur springs to mind),

My wife is from CA, she grew up there and moved to London at 22. We got married and stayed living in st Albans & working in London until March.
We got fed up of landlords selling from my under us and moved looking for stability and more affordable / better quality housing as we start thinking about things like buying a house and kids.
We moved near to Sacramento, CA - which is big town (2m and state Capitol), but we missed the UK things we love too much. Ie, social attitudes, travel, theatre, history and just London in general.
Employment law and health care in the US are awful compared to the UK - so be very aware of that.
And being an immigrant is very hard admin wise - you are basically a non person, things like getting bank accounts, phone contracts etc are a nightmare.

Where are you thinking of moving to?
How will you get a visa?
I would recommend giving it a try though
 
Only had three (four?) so far.

I did voluntary work at a charity shop when I was 17 just to get some experience on my CV to help me find a job.

Then I started of as a casual worker at the bar of the local racecourse. Did that for about a year and a half just to get some extra money whilst doing my A levels. Was bloody hard work for very little reward, but the flexibility meant it was the best thing for me at the time.

After that I had a job for two months at a launderette just to pick up some money before going to uni.

Now I have my first full time job when I realised I didn't have enough money for the flat deposit to change uni's. Started about two months ago working at a call centre for an insurance broker. The pays better than anything I'd likely find elsewhere and I'm starting to quite enjoy it. Think in a few months though it will be very tedious.
 
Just the 2.

Worked in a supermarket from 17-29.

Moved to a telecoms company on January 2nd this year.

I heard a stat saying the average time at a job for someone in their 20s to early 30s is one year, does that sound about right?
 
I've had a lot of jobs, I think, let's see;

16 - night time supervisor at a school
17 - worked at sporting good's store
19 - office dude for an environmental organization for kids
--- studied lots of useless **** at UNI ---
21 - did the lowest of the low jobs at a hospital (sampling poo, cleaning the gear they used etc)
22 - bartender
23 - graphic designer for animal right's group
23 - gardener
--- stopped studying lots of useless **** at UNI ---
24 - part-time sports/football journalist (I actually got paid watching Spurs for quite some time) and part-time assistant teacher at an elementary school
26 - assistant teacher in school for disabled kids
28 - teacher in school for disabled kids
29 - a type of nurse in group home for disabled people

I've also been freelancing some graphic design type work, web design and illustration (and sold a couple of paintings) from time to time, but it's never really been close to anything I would call "work". I've never really known what to do with my life, but I've decided to go back to school to become a nurse, and would love to specialize in cognitive therapy.

Still have a dream to make movies and score music for movies though. So we'll see, haha. :lol:
 
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2 full time jobs. the first of which, i started as a university placement role for a year (1999), then went back there full time after i finished the course. was making (mostly) educational and entertainment cd-roms for bbc and a load of other big clients.
left there in 2007 to join a company making online slots and general gambling games, and been here ever since. 7 years in both places (not counting the placement year), so might be time to look again :D
 
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