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Old 08-24-2007, 01:54 PM
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1 year - I worked with my dad doing construction clean up while I was in high school. He then moved his work downtown Atlanta, and I could no longer work with him.

3 years - I help my banquet hall job for three years while in high school and I've been with my current job for three years as well. I'll be leaving soon to student teach.
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Old 08-24-2007, 07:35 PM
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shortest: 1yr, longest 4yrs and still going!
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:57 PM
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shortest: 3 weeks (worked in food service at Six Flags one summer)
longest: 2 years (i get bored easily)
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shortest = 1 day. I crashed a golf cart on my first day of becoming a caddy at 12 years old.
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Shortest - 2 or 3 days at I think it was Wendy's. Back when they had the self-serve salad bars. I worked 2 hours a day cleaning and stocking it. After a couple days I asked how can I get some more hours because my husband at the time was unemployed, and I really needed full-time hours and I was told that you had to work your way up to that. I turned in my shirt and got a job at a nursing home because I knew I could get all the hours I wanted there.

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Old 09-16-2007, 12:59 PM
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shortest: Denny's, worked one day as a cook and hated every minute.

Longest: 5 years
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Shortest 3 days as a nurse's assistant hated it

Longest 11 years in the financial servicies field
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Longest = 16-1/2 years (yes, really)
Shortest = 1 day

Quite a contrast, isn't it?
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Shortest-- 1/2 a day. It was a temp typing job.

Does anybody remember typing stencils? They were waxy blue sheets, and the only way to make corrections was to paint over the mistake with special liquid on a little brush. Kind of like Liquid Paper. Well, the place didn't have any of the correction fluid on hand, and didn't seem willing to get any. So one typo on a page meant I had to start all over again. I left for lunch and never went back!

Longest--I spent 15 years with one employer, which kind of felt like one long job although I had different job titles over the years. In fact, I ended up working for the same supervisor through three different job titles. Looking back, I probably should have left long before I did.
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2 tie for shortest. One I took at 18 in a pizza joint. I had worked two 5 hour shifts and went to the bank with my tips the third day. I spoke to my sister who worked at the bank and found out I was out of a job.

2nd, I came home to California after grad school and took a job at the same bank. I worked 10 hours and was offered a job making twice what I was at the bank. The manager was very nice and she makes it a point that I was the shortest employed employee at XYZ bank. I still bank there ten years later.

Longest would be, being a student. 5 years undergrad and 4 years grad school. For money, it would be the job I have now. I started it almost three years ago and it turned permanent July of this year. I hope to stay a long time because state retirement is nice!
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Old 10-12-2007, 08:56 AM
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Longest 3 years

Shortest 3 months
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Old 10-13-2007, 10:29 PM
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My ONLY job: 6 years in January for a biotech.

That's if we're not counting part time jobs held during college (school newspaper, 2.5 years).
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Shortest: Two days going door-to-door drumming up donations for a small nonprofit. On the second day someone slammed a door in my face and I burst into tears on their porch and walked all the way home. I was 20.

Longest: Current job. It will be 4 years in January.
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Shortest - 3 hrs (in a restaurant). I will never work with food again. Longest - 3 years, my current job. Keeps me alive and out of debt while in college.
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Old 10-23-2007, 05:41 PM
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Shortest? 2 days, calling people to try to get them to buy tickets for a circus/fundraiser. Not fun!
Longest? 28 years... and counting
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Old 10-29-2007, 10:58 PM
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hehe. my longest is at my family's business, since 2001 (so, nearly 7 years) and my shortest was 3 hours at an organic fruit and vege store. i was working at a bakery at the same time, and at the bakery it was all go-go-go all the time, which kept you busy, but at the vege shop everyone took their time, the customers seemed to walk and move in slow motion, it felt like i had been there for 12 hours when it was only 3!
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I would say the shortest being 2 hrs. and the longest being 5 yrs.
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Longest 22 years. Now I find out if I had stayed 1 more year, I would have been bought out at around 1 years pay..oh well. Left it because I married and moved.
shortest, 3 weeks. it was at a jewerly store. I saw them weighing a white powder on the jewerly scales in the back.....i went home sick at lunch to plan out what I should do, and the same afternoon they were busted by the DEA for drug dist. Lucky for me, one of the other employees was actually an undercover, so I was ok-the owner offered me my job back (he was elderly--his sons were the druggies who ran it for him since his retirement) but i had enough.
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Job 1 = 1 year
Job 2 = 1 year
Job 3 = 2 years
Job 4 = 1 1/2 years
Job 5 = 1 year
Job 6 = 5 years

Intermission 10 years = made several attempts at self-employment, one of which succeeded to become an income source to this day.
But then I had to get a "job"...

Job 7 = 6 years, part time, and still going strong with the help of my self-employment income.

I also had a few jobs in between those listed, some as short as a week.
I still wonder how anyone can work at 1 job thier entire career, but I admire anyone with that kind of discipline, or level of contentment.

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