Number of different jobs you've had, type of jobs/positions

[shootingstar]

One of the reasons why I have to work until retirement is that I haven't had a career so far where I've worked several decades with 1 large employer.

Now to answer the above question, is to exclude jobs you've before you finished highh school. No doubt, those who are consultants, would answer "job" differently, but the job was /is a consultant.

I've had 12 different jobs for nearly the past 30 yrs. () My resume is a challenge to compress. Most jobs I applied for, do point to 80% of previous work experience.
3 were part-time while I was looking for full-time work. 1 was at a bookstore (just after I finished university), 2 were in electronic document management, 1 is part-time blogmaster and remaining in specialized libraries.


No I haven't interupted my career, with full-time studies --yet. I'm not sure if I ever will. I haven't got any ideas about this.
But I've survived 2 major moves across Canada, have worked in 3 different provinces and that has affected my work history. The present employer does consider it an advantage that I had worked in different areas of Canada, as well as different industry sectors.

[Crankin]

My resume looks quite different from others who were career educators. My first job was in a private special needs school for boys and then I worked in 7 different school districts, in 2 states. In my second to last district, I had 3 different jobs, one in a middle school, and one in an elementary school, where I was able to make the transition from special ed to teaching Language Arts. I was in my last district for 8 years, my longest employment, ever. It actually was 8.5, since I went back for half a year, as a long term sub after I quit.
I am now in my first job in my new career as a therapist. I didn't count my 2 clinical internships, which, although they were not paid, they felt like real jobs, especially last year. I also didn't count my student teaching or my master's internship for my first grad. degree.
Only one of these job changes was because I was laid off (I was hired back, but already had another job). They were all because I had gone back to school, moved, or wanted a job closer to home/better in terms of support.
I also was a group exercise instructor at 3 different places in 2 states between 1986 and 1996, and I've been a bike trip leader (volunteer) for AMC since 2005.

[westtexas]

If we exclude college and high school... I'm in my first job ever. So far being a veterinarian is pretty awesome and I like my job. Not always so keen on the town I live in and I miss my family terribly. But every day is different and interesting.

However, in college I worked for the university newspaper and when I was in veterinary school I worked as a tour guide for the college, a food sales rep for a major pet food company and as a research assistant/animal caretaker at our aviary on campus.

What I have found over the years is I actually love to work. Weekends when I don't do anything are nice every now and then, but after a few days of nothingness I go crazy.

[indysteel]

Minus several retail jobs I had in college, I'm on job number three post-law school. My first job was inherently temporary (I had a clerkship with a state appellate judge). I was at my second job--at a large law firm--for two years before I couldn't take it anymore. I've been at my current job with the federal government for 11. My boss retires in less than three years. It will be up to his replacement whether I get to stay on. So, I may be in job number four before I know it.

[jessmarimba]

I worked at Ruby Tuesday through college, pretty much every position they had.

After college, I worked in archaeology for two years - inherently temporary, but I only worked for two companies and had a few longer-term sites.

Since then I've been with the same company. I don't particularly like what I do but I don't really know what else I'd do either. I guess a lot of people end up in jobs like that, hmm?

(And then I've taught with about 10 different music organizations. Or something like that.)

[Pax]

Hmmm, real jobs... Police officer, Firefighter/Medic, Pro Lifeguard, Social Work, and now I work in a library.

So five total "careers", but within those I've changed jobs a time or two. As a LEO I worked in both IL and NM, as a pro lifeguard I worked two different places in FL, in social work I worked for three agencies in two states.

Also, when single I routinely worked additional part-time jobs to make ends meet. When I was a FF I drove trucks, did phlebotomy and autopsies at the hospital, summers I'd drive for local seed corn companies, in Fall I'd drive harvest trucks for friends who farmed.

[goldfinch]

I had two entirely separate careers. I first got a master's degree in psychology and worked in neuroscience research through a university.

I then decided that I did not want to finish my doctorate and spend my life chasing funding.

I entirely changed my direction and became a lawyer. I did that for 20 years, primarily working in intellectual property, and then I retired.

For a couple of years after I retired I worked hard to lobby and write on health care reform issues. I got sick of politics and extremely burnt out. Now I bike, chase birds, and hang out on internet message boards.