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

[ginene]

Longest 3 years

Shortest 3 months

[Schadenfreude]

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).

[TBH]

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.

[stefan@usaindebt]

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.

[marjorie]

Shortest? 2 days, calling people to try to get them to buy tickets for a circus/fundraiser. Not fun!
Longest? 28 years... and counting

[reflectionite]

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!

[Jaun22]

I would say the shortest being 2 hrs. and the longest being 5 yrs.

[mom-from-missouri]

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.

[TurningColorz]

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.

Part time,
Mike - TurningColorz