What's the longest & shortest time you've held a job?

[Fern]

What's the longest period of time you've held a job?
And what was the shortest?

For me, the longest was just 7 years, as a writer for a financial services company that sold mutual funds and annuities. I stayed cus the $$ was great, but eventually my commute and the workload killed me.

The shortest was probably just a few months. I remember 2 small businesses that hired me, then let me go, not long after. At one of them, the owner was a demanding dictator who i later learned had a rep for hiring and firing employees like she was changing clothes. She was also freaking out cus she had 2 miscarriages and was desperate to get pregnant. I believe the deciding factor was that as a writer with no previous small business experience, i asked someone for help in preparing a package for FedEx, and she was pissed i didn't know how to do that.

At the other, she acknowledged i was a good writer but had other expectations she hadn't spelled out and didn't feel i was meeting them.

[MonkeyMama]

shortest - 2 years? I had a very part-time job my last 2 years of college. (I guess I go long-term with my jobs).

Longest - 6 years and going...

[PrincessPerky]

shortest teaching, I left the state after a year

Longest burger king, all thru highschool and part of college. not sure on years...4 or 5....

husband had his highschool pizza job for 7 years..and is now at his computer place for 7 years, but not all the same computer job, just all the same sort of business. (and not all the same paycheck signers, but signers change more often than jobs..which is why he gets paid diddlysquat...)

Shortest might be an electronics store, one season (seasonal help)

[momof1in150]

Longest Engineer - 7.5 years
Shortest - Temp Job - 8 months (I knew I was moving out of state and didn't want to commit to a fulltime job)

I should really say SAHM - 8 years and counting.

[Ima saver]

The shortest job of my life was 2 hours. I got a job at McDonald's running the register. Since it was all computer and the girl was a foot taller than I, I could not figure it out. I asked to leave and did not bother to get paid at all.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Shortest- 5 days. I quit after seeing the paper work time equalled the actual work accomplished time, seeing the supervisor who did nothing but sit and yap at her supervisees while they did that paperwork, and hearing the racism spewing from said supervisor. This was a government job. I did not want to be part of the waste nor hear the racism. Bummer 'cause the actual work was interesting and valuable.

Longest- 7 years. Two different jobs of that length.

[My English Castle]

very short shortest

In college a bunch of my friends worked at a cannery over the summer.
I tried it for four hours and left after lunch.
It was noisy, smelly, messy, and hot.
And it really didn't pay all that well!

[pearlieq]

I'm on my longest now--I've been there since 2001, first as an employee, now as a consultant.

My shortest job was 1.5 days. I had one day of training, one day of work. That was enough for that job. I think I lasted about 3 weeks at the next one. That was a very long summer...

[Hedy]

Longest-high school/college retail job 3 years
Shortest-temp job that lasted a week.

[Daylily]

Longest - 9 years to the day.
Shortest - 1 day of detasseling, I didn't go back!

[Aleta]

My shortest was 1 day. I worked at a security company that had its business in a house. The office was an add on , extrememly low ceilings, and a bunch of cats all over the place. Before I get cat lover's hate mail, I personally love cats. I have one that lives outside. She was a stray, but I feed her. Anyway, between the low ceilings, cats jumping all over the desks, I couldn't take it. So, it was 1 day for me.

[benosayi]

The shortest was four days in high school at a place that canned veggies for campbell soup. The longest is my current job 22 years.

[Cassandra]

Longest: 4 months. I worked at a thrift store, but quit for my current job (almost 3 months).

Shortesst: Just under a month for an ice cream store. Fired from it.

Cassandra

[moneymatters]

My shortest job: One day - worked as temp help for a store that sold Florida Marlins sportswear.

My longest job: 2 years - first & current FT job working for a government agency.

[QueenOphelia]

Shortest - 1 day of detasseling, I didn't go back!

DL, what is detasseling?