how's your work record?

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i worked for mcdonalds and burger king and a shampoo factory and cleaned an animal shelter and worked in subway sandwiches and woolworth and a restaurent called the duke, another subway, two more mcdonalds, two more burger kings, two more subway sandwiches, a typist in five different places and did surveys over the phone, and was a live out nanny for a few months. i had other jobs but you can't expect me to remember all of them, right?
i lived with my parents till i was twenty two. thirteen years ago they bought me an apartment.
when did you live your parents' house and did they support you? i haven't asked them for money in decades. but it gets so hard sometimes.
i was fired several times because the oldtimer workers picked on me and told the boss i couldn't do the job right, which was a damn lie, by the way. and once because i couldn't file and got confused with so many folders. sometimes i wasn't accepted to the job because the boss picked on my lack of social skills in the interview. i know, because there were dozens of people and all were selected but me.
did you have a two digit number of jobs? does someone here actually have a THREE DIGIT number of jobs he/she has gone through?
do you get bored easily, too, and get frustrated and depressed because of it? we might have a low frustration level, which isn't helping when you need to work.

Thats alot of jobs... i think i might only just have a 2 figure number ill try remember...

Right now im a delivery driver and a brickies labourer... delivery is really good if there actually are deliveries to do... doing things around the shop kinda sucks but its probably the most bearable job ive ever done... the labouring is good because its straight forward and im lucky to be physically built for the job... its not something anyone could do because it just puts so much strain on the body that most people could not handle... which is what sucks about the job... your working fricken hard...

I was once a waiter... that was horrible and im sure everyone here could figure why...
Worked at a video store... that was also horrible... i was fired because of my terrible social skills...
Plumbers labourer... that was really good... but i was in the middle of highschool and i didnt give a crap about anything but surfing at the time so i kinda wasted the opportunity to follow through with that job...
Landscaping labour... that was good because it was just me and my best friend with a friendly boss... simply wasnt enough work going around to keep doing that...

Theres more but i cant be stuffed to type them out so ill leave it at that

Gosh, I've had a BUNCH of jobs. Let's see...babysitter, lawn mower, house cleaner, typist, fast-food girl, sandwich shop girl, newspaper reporter, fundraiser, bartender, publicist, typist, secretary, receptionist, call center worker, paralegal, teacher, high school principal, internet assessor, tutor, psychic, sacred music singer...and the beat goes on! I've pretty much given up even wanting a "career" anymore, much less a job.

I lost track several years ago, but I think I averaged at least two or three jobs per year over my entire "working life", so to speak. My first job ever was in my father's RV factory, and I did a variety of things there, but then he sold that business during my senior year in High School and I was on my own as far as finding another job was concerned. Over the years, people have called me a job hopper and a Prima Donna, but I was only ever looking for the same kind of environment and sense of security I had always known. As to actual jobs, I have done everything from trying to sell vacuum cleaners to actually building heavy industrial machinery, and I credit my AS/HFA for the kind of aptitude and focus needed for typically being quite "flexible" along that kind of line even while being a complete misfit at any social level.

As to financial support: My parents were never "filthy rich", as such, and they were actually not well off at all until some time after my father had started that business when I was about six years old. But all the way through until at least my early twenties, my parents always came up with money whenever I thought I needed some ... and even today I still know very little about actually managing it well (but I am doing better lately).

I've done really well at the one job I've had for the past 25 years.

I've never had a job and I can't imagine myself working. I am a leech, I know. I'm 21.

5 years of being told your fired after two weeks at many different jobs (over 20 jobs)
9 years part time work at same job
9 years of full time work at same job

I have had 3 jobs.
I tried being a waitress at this place when I was 16 and got fired for BS reasons.
I had a work study job which they could not fire me from since it's a financial aid thing, but even at that one the employer basically told me I was too slow, not motivated enough(it was a cultural center and I don't get very enthusiastic about things so I was not that great for events). and did not like that I had to repeatedly ask the same directions because I would forget parts of it immeaditly after hearing the directions.
And I even managed to get fired from a temporary job before my time was up.....for being too slow and weird, I already am weird to begin with but I was on anti-depressants which made some things worse so I guess I was even weirder. But yeah that is what I ended up hearing from some family members who learned why I was fired while I was told they had run out of stuff. I dont understand why they had to lie about it.

I've been in the workforce for roughly 10 years and during that time I've had about 12 jobs. The longest one lasted 2 years. I think it's because I can't focus on a job when I'm not interested in it. For example, I should be working right now, but I'm on WP because I don't care about my job at all.

Three months at a fast food restaurant.

Nine months at a retail store.

Three days at another retail store.

That last one was in 2003.

I have worked in hospitals for years and I had a lot of different jobs that didn't last for a very long time. I ended up in a hospital mortuary as a pathology assistant, an all time low. Not uninteresting but very hard and difficult, emotionally that is.

Now I'm trying a career change by taking up a new study. That's actually giving me a new impulse to be enthusiastic again about getting a job (and keeping one ofcourse).

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15 years of 5 jobs, basically all financial-accounting-controlling. Motivation is always a problem with me. I really don't know how I managed to survive with it.

I've had 11 jobs, three of them in the past 21 years.

None lasted for more than 6 months, and most were shorter.

I've worked for Wal-Mart since February 2010. At first I was a cashier, and it was pure hell. I moved as soon as I could, which was Sept. 2010, to overnights. I'm a full-time stocker now.

I like my job most days, because it's quiet and I can be left alone for the most part. I have had problems with attendance. It's on my records, but will get erased in a year. I'm nowhere near being terminated for it, though. This is the longest I've ever been successful at a job. But some days I just can't deal with it, so I call in. I talked with my manager last night, and I think I'm going to cut down my hours by 8 each week. I've just been getting too overwhelmed.

As a teenager, I worked a little bit at my grandparents' hardware store. I also mowed lawns and babysat. And for two years in the summer, I worked at a concession stand at a racetrack.

Well, you did manage and that's very admirable.

Nice to meat someone else on this forum for whom English is not the first language.
Where are you from. A scandinavian country?

You don't have to answer my question if you don't want to ofcourse. We are all anonymous here.

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I have had MANY jobs too--probably close to fifty (NOT counting babysitting--I am only counting things where I was legally employed). I doubt I can remember them all.... let's see:

a drug store, Greco, Taco Bell, walmart x2, portrait studio (I took the pictures), picture shop (I sold the pictures), worked a BUNCH of times for elections (poll clerk, deputy returning officer, and other positions), jack-of-all-trades position at a hotel/restaurant/store/gas station place near the Arctic (the only time I went abroad), novelty shop, lotto booth, grocery store, sandwich shop, gas station, telemarketing (AWFUL), call centre, accessories shop, scrapbooking shop, data entry, usher at an arts centre/auditorium-type place....yeah, this is all I can think of right now. Not even close to the amount of jobs I had.

I've quit several of my jobs after just one or two shifts. Many lasted less than a month, the vast majority lasted less than 3-6 months. My longest job to date was the portrait studio. I actually loved that job because I love photography...even though I did find the customer interaction portion very awkward much of the time. I was there for a year. Currently I am at an on-campus position (which is the usher at the arts centre). Surprisingly, there is not very much interaction with other people since most of the shift is the show itself. Everything else is 100% scripted, so if people can stay within my script, I can pull off normalcy for the 30 seconds I must interact with them. If they stick around long enough to hear, they will notice that what I say to the people behind them is, word-for-word, what I have said to them. This is a casual position, which I have had for 10 months so far. I plan to keep it for as long as I live in this city. I really do not know if I can pull off a full-time position though. I never have been able to long-term.

Right now I go to university, and I want to be some sort of scientist (ecology/environmental) but even then, I still don't know if I will be able to hold a job. I worry a lot about that, especially as I am a senior in my undergrad and getting closer and closer to that time when I am expected to be in the job force.