the longest i had a job for was a month and a half. i worked at tj maxx when i was a senior in high school. it was an ok job, but listening to the same christmas songs and letting people into the bathroom really got to me.
ive only had two other jobs, so my job history is patchy. i haven't worked in almost three years. i'm planning on moving cross country and starting my life over. i hope i can find a decent job there. i really don't have many skills, so i don't know what's in store for me. at least minimum wage will be $7.50.
Recently I got a redundancy from my old job. I had been there almost a year, but there was a company downsize and my boss couldn't afford to keep everyone.
I tend to get sick of jobs anyway. I think I'm like my dad, but he lasts longer.
But I have been writing since before I was nine, so that counts for something.
my current is the longest, has passed its first year few months ago.
I have had two civilian jobs. (I am in the Army Reserve, but they can't just fire me. Though they would like to, from what I've been told as they have already put me on a list so I can be re-evaluated. Plus it's only one weekend month and a seperate two weeks a year.) The first job lasted three days. This was before I was diagnosed with Asperger's. The other employees were openly sexist and racist and no one spoke to me for the first two and half days (best two and half days of my life :wink: ) until they finally decided I wasn't gay. (Like it mattered either way?!) After day 3 they told me there were not any positions open and they would call me(six months ago). I did not pursue it as I did not feel like working with them and they never asked for the uniform back so I got an extra shirt and pair of pants(without the comapny name).
My second job lasted about three weeks. Starting out, I loved it. I was working at an industrail plant as an EMT-B(contracted). Most tof the job duties were more secretarial like answering the phone. I also had to communicate with some emergency repsonse people to put them on stand-by for stuff. And watch some security cameras and let trucks in and out of gates. I had the 3 days of training as above for experience in the EMT-B part. EMT work is too fast paced for me. I transfered to a security position due to my lack of experience as an EMT-B. That did NOT work. Too many people, too many different places I had to go. My last day on the job: they sent me to the local college to train as a desk person to sign people in and out. I asked them specifically where I was going and what I was to do as the different locations stressed me out badly. I got there and they had me do like five things I was not told about and the person training me showed them to me and told me she had to leave in 15 min. NO! I was told I had to sign people in and out and that was what I was doing. And someone was going to be there to train me. After this, they said they no position open for me and they would call me back. (I still have their uniforms too.)
my current is the longest, has passed its first year few months ago.
Congrats. Did you get a holiday?
About two years...my first job after college (which I started out as an intern before college). Since then, the longest I've worked anywhere was about a year (outside grad school). I've been fired from two jobs (both of which lasted eleven weeks) and was threatened with a firing once.
Have any of you ever sued or thretened to sue over harassment, especially related to Autism? I could have sued two previous employers and even had a lawyer that was supposed to get me some info. I'm not sure if I'm going to pursue it.
Worked at the same place during my uni vacations from June 2001 onwards and was permanent there from Nov 2004 -June 2006 when I moved on.
I've been at my new place ever since :smile:
Less than 3 months, when I was 15. I worked with my dad during the summer. I haven't had any kind of job since then and I'm 22 (although, I am busy with college). Luckily, I get paid for cleaning the house. :smile:
I've been in full-time employment for the last 21 years, with 0 sackings. I work in IT and have made a pretty good career for myself - it even allowed me to move to the US
and has made me a manager. The longest I've stayed with one company is 5 years (the current job).
I have been in my current job just over 57 months.
The first and only job I've had so far (I'm only 19 and in college) lasted for two and a half years in high school - from the time I was legally old enough to work to when I was so busy with school projects/college applications that I could no longer work. I have a pretty strong work ethic, so I really dislike not having a job right now because I have too many classes.
For years I've heard business owners complain that "IT people are like gypsies".  I guess that is true for many. There seems to be some sort of IT culture that says one gets ahead by moving around a lot. I know of IT people who have never stayed the same job more than 2 years (in one case, never more than 6 months).  Alas, that is so against my nature. I can't deal with that much change.
It is true, in the IT industry it is pretty common place for people to move around advancing their careers - I have never had a less than 18% pay raise from changing jobs and always moved into a nice challenging position - until the challenge goes away.
It is true, in the IT industry it is pretty common place for people to move around advancing their careers - I have never had a less than 18% pay raise from changing jobs and always moved into a nice challenging position - until the challenge goes away.
I wish i had your courage!! This week I got promoted after more than 15 years on the job and I'm scared to death. I've turned down past attempts to promote me because I'm terrified of change and... there is that Imposter Syndrome thing. Heck, I had a panic attack when they moved my desk years ago.
Silky, it is perfectly normal to feel scared and ill-prepared for a promotion - particularly to a management function - almost every one is - ASPie and NTie. Oddly enough one of my managers passed out a document called Fear of Flying High which talked to this topic.
I was promoted last year to a management position and I was so afraid of failure that it could have been self fulfilling, but I applied myself to the challenge and seem to be succeeding - never a day goes by without me wondering if I am doing the job well, is there something I missed, etc.
Anytime Silky.
A golden rule to remember is that most people are nervous of change and this generates nervous energy. The key thing to do is convert that nervous energy into positive action - easy to say, can be difficult to apply.