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

[y26]

shortest 2 years.. And currently 10 years on going..

[Bookie]

Shortest was two days in a paper mill during college. I was too small to run the equipment.

Longest was 32 years as an academic administrator.

[Dave Rowtree]

Shortest - 6 weeks - company liquidated (I don't think it was my fault....)
Longest - 6 years - current position. Still love it.

[fairy74]

longest-3 years attorney at Legal Services
Shortest - 2 weeks I picked up a 2nd job in college selling magazines at a call center, they wanted us to push people to put subscriptions on credit cards, I wouldn't do it and was asked to quit

[Hot dog]

Longest -- Going on 10 years Sept 3 Yeah that means I will get one more week of vacation time!!

[eisor]

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.

[loanstar]

shortest: 1yr, longest 4yrs and still going!

[financialdominance]

shortest: 3 weeks (worked in food service at Six Flags one summer)
longest: 2 years (i get bored easily)

[i-endeavors]

shortest = 1 day. I crashed a golf cart on my first day of becoming a caddy at 12 years old.

[aurielle]

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.

Longest - 6+ years and still going.

[Seacoast_01]

shortest: Denny's, worked one day as a cook and hated every minute.

Longest: 5 years

[Tree0164]

Shortest 3 days as a nurse's assistant hated it

Longest 11 years in the financial servicies field

[scfr]

Longest = 16-1/2 years (yes, really)
Shortest = 1 day

Quite a contrast, isn't it?

[StressLess]

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.

[debtfreeme]

jobs!

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!