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How many jobs have you had?

Lots and lots of office jobs - I used to get bored after a year or so, and then move to another one. I tried to count them but gave up after 20. But I've been in my current job for 16 years.
 
1. Paper Boy. In one four year period from ages 12 - 16 I slept past 6am a total of eight times!

2. Worked on market stall. This was very educational in many ways. It taught me that the Marxist interpretation of economics was fundamentally correct and that inescapable logical conclusion was that I should propel myself into the capital owning class with all possible haste.

3. Motorcycle courier. Easily the most dangerous thing I've ever done.

4. Pilot (Military). Was quite good at this.

5. Pilot (Commercial). Was quite bad at this.

6. Managing Director/Business Owner. Was very good at this partially due to the motivation supplied by shit jobs 1 through 3 and 5.
 
Remembered one slightly odder temp job I had, which was peeling the sticks for walking sticks. Was a factory in town that made those wooden NHS ones, and every year they needed someone to peel that year's supply of sticks. Someone used to put bundles of the sticks in this big vat of boiling water over night then I'd have to come in next day fish them out, give them a Chinese burn to peel the bark off then stack them out to dry. Working all on my tod in this steamy cellar. Took a couple of months if I recall right then job was over until next year.
 
Various things which don't add up to that much in total haha:

Newspaper round
Evening shelf stacker at high street shop
Rubbish hash dealer
Second hand bookshop - quite fun n easy, i had/have a good memory with books.
Juice/smoothie bar - making n delivering
Chugging
Train station café
Festival stewarding and other work
Worked in a youth hostel
EFL teaching in Spain and the U.K - at almost a year it's probably what's lasted the longest n what i'm not bad at.
 
About 20, none of which had much to do with what I wanted to do, but *shrug* they cleared the overdrafts.
 
Pub. (2 days. Landlord was a cunt. I quit.)
Pub. (2 years. Got fed up. I quit.)
Directory enquiries operator. (1 year, overlapped with last year of ^. Made redundant.)
Bookseller. (8 years. Made redundant.)
Library manager type thing. (3 years. I quit.)
Freelance transcriber. (Ongoing for the past 3 years, whenever I can get work. It's pretty sparse.)

Been a student in some capacity for nearly all of that time.
 
3.
Shipyard (apprenticeship the 3 years, including 2 year secondent to the MOD)
Ship classification society (London, Amsterdam and Houston)
Engineering consultans(Houston and Rio de Janeiro)
 
Wedding photographers assistant - Casual job when needed between uni and next job
Admin assistant
CAD designer - At the same place as previous job
Self employed - In addition to previous job, mainly web development with a bit of other stuff too

If I was more motivated I could probably go freelance full time, but effort has never been one of my strong points :hmm:
 
Stanley Edwards said:
On 10 hands I can just about remember 30+

Very varied they were as well. Anything from sorting rubbish to living the high life as a pretend expert at something I don't remember what I was supposed to be expert in.
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About the same for me. :D

From short spells of cleaning bogs, collecting rubbish, etc. to fancy titled jobs such as Station Manager [radio], Group Business Manager [magazines], Group Special Project Manager and Divisional Managing Director [newspaper groups], with those I got them simply from working hard, having good ideas that I could deliver on and overall experience, not from formal qualifications of any sort.

I never actually felt I was 'expert' enough for the more senior positions, but I always managed to hold it together and do well*, was rewarded financially for my efforts, so the bosses must have been happy, and I had the respect of my colleagues, some of the best actually followed me when I took up new positions elsewhere, so I guess I did ok.

However, I am much happier being self-employed again, I can't be dealing with corporate bullshit.

* Well apart from the Divisional Managing Director job, which I walked out of within a few months before launching and winning a case of constructive dismissal, which cost them a tidy 5 figure sum plus legal costs of both parties, but that was more to do with the fact the job came as part of the deal when I sold my little publishing business to them and certain members of senior management seemed threaten by me and decided to make life impossible for me. See what I mean by saying I can't be dealing with corporate bullshit. :D
 
I've just been for my 22nd interview of the year which if I got it would make it 14 organisations that I've worked for since the late 70s - though some of them I've worked for on a number of different times and I've lumped the self-employed work in to one.
 
hmm.

warehouse clerk (blargh - I quit)

casual job that didn't actually start because the firm went bust while I was working out notice from the above :facepalm:

shop stockroom / mail order sort of dogsbody (more blargh)

warehouse trade counter / admin sort of thing (not bad, but slightly dodgy redundancy - they wanted someone with a driving licence)

assorted casual shit - warehouse stuff, electrician's assistant, supermarket assistant in the run up to Christmas, casual help for a week with an office move

civil service admin officer (I didn't try hard enough to appear unenthusiastic in the interview)

full time volunteer social work assistant sort of thing (it seemed like a good idea at the time)

more casual shit that I can't even remember the detail of

casual clerk, housing benefits

temporary insurance administrator for a bus company
temporary data analysis role for the same bus company
temporary enquiry line operator for the same bus company (ran out of temporary roles)

housing benefits interviewer for a london borough

assistant then senior assistant in passenger transport bit of a shire county (various different roles under the same job description - finally got the heck out as decided that fighting to stay where i wasn't wanted was not good for the health)

passenger transport consultant for one consultancy then another when I got TUPE'd (got redundancy last year which I think suited all concerned)

freelance proof-reader / editor / transport consultant (not very successful)

blargh

I make that 11 employers, and can't remember how many casual things.
 
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