I was just thinking about how many places I've worked, and its a lot! If I include EVERY job/internship I've ever had, it's .... 13! Wow! How about you?
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6, not counting volunteer positions. Though I did multiple jobs at the farm, and multiple jobs for a guy who fixes up houses.
ETA the jobs:
Babysitter (full time for three months, in addition to odd babysitting jobs)
Pony ride attendant/horse trainer/strawberry picker at the farm
Shingle shoveling/house cleaning for fixer-upper real estate agent
Librarian
Data Entry Clerk/bill processing for a delivery company
ArmyVolunteer:
Data Entry Clerk for a university
Waitress/bar wench (couple of places with set menus)
Fry Hut girl (Zero training with zero supervision + a malfunctioning register = worst fry hut girl ever)
Children's library -
Umm 5 I think (if you count unpaid internships):
1. High school summer job for 4 summers: movie theater
2. (Unpaid) Internship at an elementary school
3. Preschool teacher for 3 year olds
4. "Floater"/sub after a move at a daycare
5. Current job as a Pre-K teacherOh and I'm 22.
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Only 8 if you don't count my babysitting days!
1. Drugstore (highschool)
2. Bank (highschool)
3. Clothing Store #1 (College)
4. Country Club Waitress (College)
5. Clothing Store #2 (College)
6. Professional job #1
7. Professional job #2
8. Current Professional job!I was a full time nanny one summer in High School and I also babysat for a variety of families off and on. I don't really count that as a job though because I was too young for it to be considered an actual job. When I was a nanny the Mom was actually home all day, just doing different things like working out, getting massages, etc.
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I'm 28 and I've only worked at 3 different places:
Retail store #1
Retail store #2
Current professional job.I worked in retail to get me through college. I did have multiple positions while there. And at my current job, I started out as an intern, was converted to a contractor, and was then converted into a full time employee. I like consistency
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I've had 7 (and I'm 27):
1. In a nursing home's dining room in high school
2. Administrative assistant at residential life at my college
3. Editing/book layout for my history professor
4. Gardener to the stars (I pulled weed's in fancy people's flower beds the summer after college)
5. Freelanced for a realtor in town designing ads (also after college before I got a real job)
6. Graphic design in the marketing department of a nursery/garden/landscape design company
7. Graphic design/corporate marketing for a branch of local government (think tv's Parks & Recreation) -
i want to say like 12, including my parents store.... i've worked my entire life! worked like 3 jobs at once in college (all part-time)
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I'm 28 and have worked 5 jobs.
1. A wedding photographer as an assistant.
2. In a surf shop through high school
3. My step-father; he's an artist, so assisting him on job sites, as well as some painting.
4. A boat/water ski dealer
5. Where I've been for the last 6 years...my FIL's construction company. -
I'm 28 and have had 5 jobs:
1. Summer Restaurant (high school)
2. Ames (anyone remember that place?? During high school)
3. Media News place at my college
4. Internship at a Software Engineering company
5. Current professional job (5 years now) -
1. Worked for my dad's business growing up
2. Pizza place in between college semesters
3. Department of Dance and Theatre in college
4. Department of Philosophy in college
5. Temp position for 2 weeks after college
6. Been working at my current position ever since! (almost 3 years) -
6 jobs, 8 if you count the 2 work-study jobs I had in college.
1. Sales at Hancock Fabrics in high school (like, 2 months)
2. Nanny for an agency in college (1 1/2 years)
3. Sales at Forever 21 in college (2 weeks. lol. worst job ever)
4. Sales/stock/management at Victoria's Secret in college and after (4 years)
5. Unit Leader at a girl scout camp in college (1 summer)
6. Costumer for Six Flags StL in college (1 summer)I also worked in housekeeping for 1 year and in the university's costume shop for 2 1/2 years in college.
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I'm 24 and if I lump all of my babysitting into 1 job and all of my soccer refereeing in MS/HS into 1, then I've had 12 jobs.
1. Babysitting (tons of different jobs through MS/HS)
2. My parents store (served as my mom's assistant bookkeeper one summer in MS or HS)
3. Soccer Referee (tons of different leagues/ places through MS/HS)
4. Research Lab at GT (all 4 years of college)
5. Cold Stone Creamery (summer after freshman year of college)
6. Secretary at my HS (summer after freshman year of college)
7. Research Lab in Singapore (summer after sophomore year of college)
8. Internship at Pharma company (summer after junior year of college)
9. College Intramurals referee (senior year of college)
10. Teaching Assistant (senior year of college)
11. First professional job (2.5 years)
12. Second professional job (I start in 3 weeks so I'm counting it)It looks like I must jump around jobs a lot but I really didn't. I just started earning money at like age 12 or 13 and often times was doing multiple jobs at once. My shortest ever positions were 3 months but those were specifically summer positions between school semesters.
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1- Summer Job @ 16, 40hr weeks through the summer did this when I was 16 and 17 both summers
2- Cook at a bar- it was OK but flexible hours so worked with school
3-Daycare provider
4- In home care for disabled adults
5- United States Navy (for 6 yrs)
6- My current job working for the Navy -
Since I was 12 I have worked at 11 places. That includes the summer I spent babysitting for a lady and my internship. Some places that I've worked include
-Sonic
-Subway
-CiCis Pizza
-Dippin Dots
-Bath & Body Works
-FedEx Office -
1. Lifeguard for one summer
2. Walgreens
3. Intern with the State
4. Grader/teacher assistant in college
5. Internship
6. Engineer w/ water district (current job) -
Oh wow, I totally spaced. I worked at Macy's for a month before I found my current job. So 7 total.
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Chocolate shop, concessions for baseball, medical records at an ob, theater camp counselor, arts and rec intern, art therapist for: out patient drug abuse for teens, assisted living, mental hospital, and case manager/activity director for adults with mental illness, and admissions for Jewish nursing home.
So 10.
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Only 2. My first job I was at for almost 9 years. Sometimes I still regret leaving there. My job after that I was at for 3.5 years, but left to be a SAHM. I've also only been on 1 interview in my life. I like to consider myself a loyal employee.
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At the age of 28, I've had 10 jobs. I'm a workaholic so there were times, I had 3 jobs at one time. I currently just have one job.
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My parents owned a tire shop so I grew up working there, but my jobs, chronologically, are:
1)Tire shop
2) Burger shack
3) Tutor
4) Librarian
5) Telemarketer (lasted less than 2 days)
6) Church office manager (volunteer)
7) Teacher's assistant
8) Home health aid
9) Bridal consultant
10) Private reading coach
11) Textbook company per diem
12) Teacher
13) Back to textbook company per diem
14) Marketing/displays coordinator
15) Bridal consultant/salon manager at a different salonNot counting the tire shop, all of these jobs have been in the last 10 years. I think I'm planning on staying here for now though.
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1. Home Bakery
2. Nanny
3. Editorial Assistant (Internship)
4. Au Pair
5. Teacher, ministry administrator
6. Grant Writer
7. Taco Bell
8. ESL Teacher/Grant Writer
9. It will be doula, in a few months -
Pre-career: dog walker, lifeguard, cashier at Walmart, secretary assistant, Lerner associate.
Career: 4 TV stations, one network and two software companies.
Total: 11
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13, and some i even went back to work at the same place so i've changed jobs (especially 2nd jobs) many many too many times.
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I started as a lifeguard/swim lesson instructor at 15, did that through sophomore summer of college. Then I did an unpaid internship and after graduation started full time in my professional career where i remained for 14 years. I changed job titles a few times and the company name changed three times.
I never really babysat or worked retail.
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1. Bakery (high school)
2. Bank (high school)
3. Financial Aid office (college)
4. Restaurant waitress #1 (college)
5.. Function waitstaff (college)
6. Restaurant waitress #2 (college)
7. Restaurant waitress #3 (college)
8. Town Manager Office (internship)
9. Tutor (work - study in college)
10. Media Company (temp job, awful!)
11 Professional job #1 (5 years)
12. Jenny Craig (2nd job)
13. Current Professional Job (6.5 years)Didn't think it was that many but, in college I worked 2-3 jobs at some points, and I worked at a number of different restaurants because of summer breaks. I didn't include babysitting or volunteering jobs.
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In my professional career I've only worked at 3 places: My current company, an IT outsourcing company, and a financial svcs company.
Prior to that I worked at 2 different restaurants, 1 tutoring center, Victoria's Secret, and my parents' cleaners (barely). So that makes... 8 diff places
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@MaisyMay: Wow, I think you win!
I didn't list mine so I'll do that now!
1. Coffee shop (I was basically fired because I was bad at it)
2. Accessory shop
3. The Gap
4. An ice cream parlor
5. Internship at a magazine
6. Target
7. Olive Garden
8. Waitress/barista at a cafe
9 Internship at a radio station
10. Locally owned steakhouse
11. Hibachi restaurant
12. Internship at a website
13. Current job at a marketing firmThis doesn't include babysitting jobs or any volunteering positions. I think why I've had a lot of jobs is that I started working at 15, and changed my part-time job pretty much every year until I graduate from college. I also did three internships.
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This will be tough...
1) babysitting (had probably 10 regular clients)
2) coffee/sandwich shop / bakery
3) upscale retirement village
4) The Gap
5) State Street IT
6) accessory store
7) health services at my college
8) bubble tea shop
9) a PR company in NYC
10) asoftware company
11) WGBH (PBS affiliate) interactive
12) event marketing firm (digital)
13) dog walker
14) freelance administrative
15) bridal salon
16) art museum (new media)
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