How many jobs have you had ?

[Marc Meakin]

Sounds like it has been done before but here goes anyway.
In a working career that spans over 40 years I have had 5 jobs.
2 years as a wages clerk in the Co-Op.
A year as a bus conductor.
28 years as a heating engineer/maintenance engineer.
6 years in retail/stock management.
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Just realised I have spent a total of 3 years unemployed at various times.
Doesn't time fly when you have mental illness

[Jon O'Neill]

4

[Gavin Chipper]

Depends what counts as a job. Three organisations have paid me money to do work for them, plus some agency work.

[Ben Wilson]

5. Been at my current job three times as long as the other 4 put together.

[Fiona T]

What do we count as jobs? The egg round I had at 15 till I fell off my bike and broke the eggs?

Post leaving school -

Cleaner 3 days (sacked, was rubbish)
MaccyD's 4 months.
MoD 4 years.
Local council 10 years (with two privatisations/takeovers)
Mail order wine 10 years - good times and lots of wine.
Freelance/contract 10 years - best times, should have done it sooner.

[Marc Meakin]

What do we count as jobs? The egg round I had at 15 till I fell off my bike and broke the eggs?

Post leaving school -

Cleaner 3 days (sacked, was rubbish)
MaccyD's 4 months.
MoD 4 years.
Local council 10 years (with two privatisations/takeovers)
Mail order wine 10 years - good times and lots of wine.
Freelance/contract 10 years - best times, should have done it sooner.

Tell me more about the egg round.
I'm a city boy and have never heard of it.
Sounds impractical on a bike

[Ian Volante]

Around ten, depending on definition.

[James Robinson]

One, or two if you include multiple paper rounds in my younger days.

[Jennifer Steadman]

Wildly varies depending on definition.

1 long-term temp job
3 short-term temp jobs
1 stint of freelance proofreading/transcription
3 permanent jobs (1 zero hours contract, 2 proper contracts)

Couple of little bits in my teens as well, including volunteering in a charity shop and being paid to teach a creative writing class in sixth form.

[Fiona T]

Tell me more about the egg round.
I'm a city boy and have never heard of it.
Sounds impractical on a bike

Basically you had to build up your own round - knock on doors and ask people if they wanted "fresh farm eggs" delivered weekly. Became a bit of a tongue twister. I think the minimum order from the supplier was about 20 dozen and you kept a few pence from every box sold.

Put in the legwork, got the customers, and started it. The supplier then started putting up prices, and customers would drop off, but you'd committed to 20 dozen. Was a lot of work for very little money.

I, and I assume most of my customers, thought that the eggs were free range (less common back in the 80s) hence the inflated price, but with hindsight realised that was never actually said - "fresh farm eggs" could equally be a battery farm. Nor were they particularly fresh - any unsold stayed in my shed until the following week.

Last straw was falling off my bike during my delivery and smashing a few boxes, completely wiping out any money I might have made that month.

I wouldn't recommend

[Marc Meakin]

No.
I remember on my paper round (lasting all of two weeks )
My mums shopping trolley lost a wheel mid round and the trolley fell in s deep puddle.
So everyone got Papier mache delivered instead of their local paper.....too embarrassed to collect my wages