a week...

Wow, there's an idea...

I've had the same volunteer job since I was ten, at the library. The librarians have been my best help with learning acceptable social skills, and boosting my self-esteem, making me feel that I'm the good kid in at least one area; that whether or not I succeed in the real world, I've made a difference in the library.

Oh, wow...that's rough, Stella!


I have kept jobs but I always hate them. I get so bored. I hate a lot of the stupid stuff that goes on, the petty chit-chat and gossip, the 'networking' ickiness and cliques. The endless day to day inane cubicle crap

* Sigh *

The longest I generally stay at a job is 1-2 years. I've been at my present job amost 3. I'm considering leaving in another year.

I have 'job hopped' and 'career hopped' most of my adult life. The absolute worst thing I could think of having happen to me is to be promoted into a position where I have tons of responsibility and have to oversee a lot of people

*Shudder*


So I never stick around long enough to 'rise' into such an esteemed position!

I've never really had a real job (with pay and all) but I did alot of volunteer work, usually when I participate in activities and such I work really hard and put so many hours in.  I admit I'm pretty extreme I mean in sickness and in health I'm there.  

My problem is basically boredom, once I reach the 'peak' so to speak (meaning a good positon) I end up leaving shortly after because I can't handle it any longer, it's not the work but it's just being bored and wanting to move to something else .. I think it's pretty sad that I always do that but I can't seem to control myself.


If this were a real job I'm sure I'd do the same, I could probably keep a job for max. 3 years if it was something I really enjoyed doing, after that I'd just get frustrated, if I needed the money then I'd just drag myself there everyday.

I'm a lot like that, actually, as is my husband.  I've bounced around more in my career than is ideal (career wise) to keep interested and stimulated.  In some fields that's OK, actually.  You may not make as much money that way (at least I know I would have made more money if I had stuck with one specialty), and you certainly won't ever vest in a pension, but you can have a fun and interesting career.  My max has been about 5 years, and to even get to that I have to do some switching and changing within the job.

Right now I'm doing contract work.  I have some of my own clients, and I spend time at two different firms each week.  It's an insane schedule, and it was only odd chance that I adapted it, but I've found I like it.  It's DIFFERENT, and I get different stimulation at each place.

One thing that helps, is that I AM quite good at what I do.  I get a lot of respect from those I work with, as my husband does.  You can get away with a lot if you're good at what you do

As I am a student I have only ever had a christmas retail job and office temping jobs, the longest they have ever last is about 2 months usually because the job was finished/ they no longer had the budget for a temp. I got fired once for not meeting my sales target.

I do however have more difficulty finding jobs. I went for a lot of interviews where I didn't get the job. One actually said it was because I 'didn't have enough personality' and a couple more said that 'I wasn't as strong as other candidates on the interview.'

That's longer than any of the temping jobs I had when I was a student!

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 longest was 4½ years - I finished working in that job in January this year.

However, it was 4½ miserable and traumatic years overall, working virtually alone with two bosses who hardly ever spoke to me like I was a human being, and threatening me with the sack many many times.  

Other jobs have lasted 2 years, that's the permanent ones.  Have had temp jobs earlier on this year, but one lasted 1½ weeks, and prior to that, I had one where I lasted the grand total of one day.

That sounds like when I started in the pulic service - I had a manager who timed coffee breaks and she gave me the stare of death because I had the temerity to return 30 seconds late. It was because they sent me out to buy morning teas for the audit staff and I got confused working out who was supposed to get what change. I never had my own break either.

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.)

Congrats. Did you get a holiday?