How many jobs have you had?

[discokermit]

Trawler deck hand in Iceland

fair play, cuntchops.

 

[Lock&Light]

Warehouse assistant at the National Archive sounds interesting.

It was actually very boring. My job was to retrieve boxes of documents as and when they were requested and to return them afterwards. Very tiring on the legs as well as there was close to a kilometer of shelving on each floor of the building.

 

[discokermit]

yts, labouring, four placements,
factory labourer,
apprentice painter (not completed),
apprentice maintenance fitter,
lot's of welding jobs interspersed with periods as a security guard and drug dealer.

i get sacked regularly due to having a big mouth, hatred of authority and a bit of a temper.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The lighthouse job ended with automisation and I was fired from two or three of the others, but until I settled in the Hague I moved around a lot.

There is the one about a man applying for a job doing light housework and being surprised when he got the job and found himself in a helicopter flying out over the sea.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

re: the beer, absolutely. same with house painting, cleaning, restaurant work, landscaping, etc. But I can see how one can get used to doing a job like that and years just pass by in the blink of an eye. Because you're just lulled into submission: too tired to do anything after work besides have some beers and/or smoke a joint and sit in front of the tv, and every day becomes just the same.I think fear of that is why I never stayed at one job very long lol.

sounds awful about the chicken factory

Yeah, a lot of jobs that involve turning animals into food are like that.

I've done the head work and the body type work. I can't say for sure which one is better.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It was actually very boring. My job was to retrieve boxes of documents as and when they were requested and to return them afterwards. Very tiring on the legs as well as there was close to a kilometer of shelving on each floor of the building.

You didn't have one of those ride-'em forklifts.

 

[High Voltage]

Apprentice hot metal compositor at the local newspaper - ended up running the composing room.

Trained as a typesetter at a printers

Typesetter at another book / journal typesetting company

Same company but different department - typesetting for design agencies and general studio work - ended up managing that as well.

Digital art worker at a small flexo plate making company making printing plates for corrugated box plants

Digital art worker at a large flexo plate making company making printing plates for corrugated box plants - ended up managing half a dozen little studios around the UK all pretty much doing the same thing for printers.

Studio manager / reprographics manager at a huge flexible packaging printing plant

 

[Badgers]

Too many to remember. My favourite was working at Spud-u-Like. When people ordered cheese and beans it sparked something inside me.

 

[spanglechick]

Lol

Ok-
Part time while at school:
Barratts shoes
Asda records and tapes dept
Mothercare
Uni holiday jobs:
Au pair in Italy
Warehouse for blockbuster video posters and POS
Various food service temp jobs
Various clerical temp jobs
The Body shop
Teaching round one:
Boys grammar school - eng and drama
Huge mixed comp - drama
Also holiday clerical / reception for local council
Then:
manager - cinema multiplex
IT 'headhunter' (cold calling)
Then:
Various acting jobs
Life modelling
Supply teaching
Teaching round two:
Mixed comp - mostly English, some drama
Girls' academy - head of drama
Also:
some floristry

 

[marty21]

about 20 I think - first job was a part-time job at a Grocers in 1978

 

[Balham]

Loads, well, a few before I was 21 and then the ambulance service which was consistent in my life.

 

[wayward bob]

fuck all:

waitress
barmaid
interviewing tourists for council research
library assistant
admin assistant/education assistant/education officer for an arts charity
interviewing elderly people for uni research
shop assistant
interspersed with various voluntary work in museums, newsletter/treasurer, website coding and 8 years as a "stay-at-home" mum.

an awesome return for my 1 1/2 degrees i think everyone will agree following my current degree i intend to become a self-employed artist unemployable layabout for the foreseeable.

 

[mentalchik]

6 including saturday jobs when i was younger !

 

[toblerone3]

This thread

 

[_angel_]

Don't know esp if you count cleaning or writing jobs....!

 

[gentlegreen]

powder coater
electronics bench tester
confectionery R&D assistant
Lab assistant (packaging)
Lab assistant MAFF
Floor sweeper (engineering)
student
warehouse sorter
IT/AV - past 30 years - several posts same employer.

 

[N_igma]

6 separate jobs.
8 roles altogether.

 

[el-ahrairah]

dozens.

 

[baffled]

One, joined the railway straight from school 23 years ago.

 

[Cloo]

As a kid:
Two opera choruses, ENO (aged 11 and 13), one child's part, Royal Opera (aged 16), Recording/concert performance of children's role (16), role in children's opera adaptation at Unicorn Theatre (17)

Adult life:
Post university: Marketing Assistant at theatre charity - sometimes paid, sometimes voluntary, depending on what they could afford. Mostly data entry stuff

Then did post-grad course in Publishing Studies and then
Editorial assistant - social care publisher. Initiation of fire, as I was basically straight into project management, only paid about 25% of what you'd get for doing the same in any other field
Editorial assistant - healthcare journal. Actually a real step down in responsibility from previous job. It was a new role and I had a few days of proofreading to do a month and that was about it. Took me ages to convince my managers I was actually at a loose end 75% of the time.
Project editor/commissioning editor - education publishers. Did this for 8.5 years (admittedly with about 18 months of maternity leave in there) until made redundant at the end of July.

Currently looking for similar sort of thing...

 

[seeformiles]

Potato Picking
Painting/plastering/chimney sweeping/gardening
Kitchen Porter
Commis Chef
Semi-pro musician
(All of the above supplemented by hash and acid dealing)
Barman
Mailroom Assistant
Driver (minibuses, vans)
Photocopier repair
Mortgage Underwriter
Management Information Officer
Admin in HEI

(Could be worse I suppose)

 

[weepiper]

Leaflet distributing round as a teen
Summer job as a landscape gardener's dogsbody
Sales assistant at a big Olympus Sport superstore
Bike mechanic

Doesn't sound like much but since leaving school I've also done a year at agricultural college, a four year degree at uni and had three kids.

 

[Kanda]

This job = 10 years
previous = 2 years
previous = 8 years

before that, loads of random warehouse/market trader/electronics engineer/blah blah... so last 3 jobs = half my life.

 

[girasol]

Before (and while) I went to university, at the age of 23, quite a few - I was 18 when I got my first job:
delicatessen, waitress, babysitter, handing out magazines, various cleaning jobs while I studied (six I think), photography assistant (for a day), four office admin jobs... So about 15?

Since I graduated, just the one really, although I started off in a smaller company which got taken over, and that medium size company also got taken over... But in terms of years of service it all counts as one job.

 

[stuff_it]

At least 20.

 

[hiccup]

In roughly chronological order:

Paperboy
Barman
Leaflet hander-outer
Decorating/maintenance at an English language college
Whilst travelling: building sites: various jobs, house removals, sanding down metal cases for machines that measured the viscosity of liquids
Exterior house painting
Gardener
Call centre operative
Website support person
Logistics assistant
Supply analyst
Webmaster
Web designer

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fucking thousands, ranging from drug dealer to ostrich farmer.

 

[Voley]

Babysitter, farm labourer, gardener, car park attendant, labourer on building site then into a career of sorts in housing: housing officer, contract officer, customer services officer, project officer, homelessness officer, then gave up on housing and worked for a year doing data entry/filing for the Inland Revenue, four years doing nothing in hotter countries, call centre for the council for 9 months or so, various temp admin two or three week stints, then admin for the waste management section of the local council for a year, then customer services for a housing association which is what I do now. A month ago I was a housing officer again for a week but decided it wasn't for me so went back to my old job. I reckon that's about 20, give or take - I get it down to 10 for my CV.

 

[xes]

various warehouse jobs via agencies
sparkies mate/laborer
job I have now. (13 years and counting)

 

[Firky]

Fucking LOADS

So many that people generally don't believe me I have had so many and that I have to omit many off my CV