I was up to 14 at age 25. When you’re young and inexperienced, any schmuck that will pay you and be slightly less abusive than the last guy is worth working for, and you never owe the last person anything.
Just had a talk about this exact topic in an interviewer today. Talked about how a growing number of companies on my resume no longer exist, and the guy interviewing me said he had the same thing. It’s a rough business world we live in. I’m not gonna hold the number of jobs a person has had against them. In fact, it speaks of experience. Not deep, but certainly wide.
“Welcome aboard, Johnny Sins”
“neat.” then I go back to doing my job
“That’s so cool man. What was the weirdest one?”
I say that rookie numbers for that age. I am 44 and had at least the high hundreds. He little old but needs to pump those numbers up.
Make friends with the guy. He’s got some some stories. True or not, he’s got some stories.
Oh got stories. It be easier to tell you what I haven’t done, then to list what I have done for work.
Let’s judge him for doing something different, while being too afraid of doing the same.
I’d say it is none of my business what they did for employment prior to where they are now and stay out of their life.
My DIL had at least that many by age 26. Now she makes more than i do, so… 🤷
I’m 38 and I’ve had about half of that, but the vast majority was from 16-25. They were all shitty retail things or short term odd job type things, but work is work so I include them if someone asks how many jobs I’ve had except on a resume of course. I just stick to relevant things there.
I’ve done everything from retail, to refrigeration diagnostic work. From wiping ass and giving meds, to even being a carnie. The only type of jobs I’ve never had are “real people jobs” like office work. I’m just a subhuman meat machine.
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
This is the answer.
Also what types of employers. Large companies vs small business.
Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?
If it’s the last one, I’m bringing my lunch to work to watch the show as the boss gets pissed.
I don’t judge others based on their slaver records.
You wouldn’t judge someone who owns slaves?
If prison is modern day slavery, and judges send people to prison, then wouldn’t judges be the ones to judge about judging slaves?
good catch… that’s a typo
That the person probably won’t stick around for long. I’d still give them a fair chance, but if they up and quit one day out of nowhere I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m not in charge of the hiring though, so I just work with whoever I’m told to work with.
Depends on the job, but it would be a red flag for my career as projects usually last for at least a year.
I’ve had 50. It depends on the person and the jobs.
Some jobs are minimum wage BS jobs that people are doing just to stay alive, if you burn out on a BS job in 6 weeks that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
I also typically have worked multiple jobs at the same time. I’ve had two full-time jobs and a part-time job while going to school and not sleeping for more than 5 hours a night for like 9 months.
Are you going to hold that against me, or does it show that I have the drive and initiative to accomplish my goals no matter how difficult they may be?
Sure, I bounced between jobs a lot when I was in my teenage years and my early twenties, but once I hit college and built a career and my employment history has been Rock fucking solid, typically 3+ years between job changes.
I would say that my last 14 years of employment weighs a lot more heavily than my first 5 years of employment.
