Several dozen, in four different fields. I’ve been a teacher, a programmer, a childcare worker, and a waitress.
I’m considering becoming an electrician next.
I was a greens-keeper after high school for about 8 summers. Then I got a decent software development job that I still have more than 11 years later.
12, but it’s complicated. I was a freelancer for a long time, count that as one job, but I had dozens of customers. I quit one place and went back, and 2 employers have been acquired while I worked there, count all those as one each. Not counting summer or part times while in school. This is all over the span of 44 years, so I’m a little quicker than your 4 years on average. The shortest one was a little less than a year; it was a mistake to take the job in the first place. IMO, switching jobs is the biggest, maybe the only, leverage a worker has vs an employer. If you don’t have a credible alternative to your job, they know that, and know they can victimize you.
I’ve had 14.
10 of them were from when I was a kid through college, and then 4 in my professional career. I’m entering my 40s and have been at my current job for 8+ years now.
Anytime someone moves to a new job at a quicker pace than once every four years sounds a bit much to me. Not in a disapproving way of course. I’ve had many odds and ends but only one true career, though this in turn can be split into a few roles which I have taken. As often as I explain it, all parts of the career, old and new, are difficult to explain, though they can be discussed.
It depends how you want to count them. Does self-employed (artist), self-employed (IT consulant) & self-employed (tree surgeon) count ad one or three? Especially since all of those overlapped to some extent. And do promotions count?
However, looking at long-term, full-time roles only, then about 5 - most of which involved at least one internal promotion. Probably closer to 15 if you include all the odds and ends. I’m in my 50s and will probably be staying put now until I retire.
My brothers - quite a bit older than me - had one job (including promotions) in one case and two in the other.
i gotta ask: whats a tree surgeon?
It is about dealing with damaged or diseased trees mostly, or just reducing the tops to make them safe and so on.
I spent my time climbing trees then hanging from them on ropes while playing with chainsaws. Very enjoyable and satisfying work, but extremely physical.
11 - 5 were summer/college jobs when I was a kid, and I’ve had a couple of promotions, so I’ve only had 4 employers/6 jobs in the last 18 years since my first “real” job. I’ve stayed at most of my employers way longer than a lot of people my age (39), though, so I think it would be reasonable to have had more. It might’ve been better for my salary to have more. I just really, really hate job hunting and I’ve been fortunate to mostly enjoy what I do.
For younger people, I don’t see job hopping as being super problematic, though I know a lot of people in charge of hiring do. If you’ve hit 30 and haven’t managed at least a couple years at one place, that’s probably not a good sign, but people should try different stuff (and get more money). We spend too much time at work to be miserable.
Right now I’m at 8 different jobs in 5 different companies. I switched jobs inside one (totally different job profiles). 4 of those jobs were during school and university time.
Ive had 2 but i only in my twenties and in college so i think thats reasonable. Worked as a waiter and had an internship handling the shipping and disposal of nuclear material. Mostly did unsupervised demolition ans oporated a forklift without a license lmao.
Pretty chill tho, got to listen to the magnus archives and hit things with a sledge hammer. It was just a temp building made of shitty ass wood so the demo wasnt too dangerous
Of around 10 people at my work who operated the forklifts (myself included), only one guy was actually certified, and his certification had expired.
That sounds about right lmao. I only like mentioning it because of the old meme surrounding operating a forklift without a cert
6 in 20 years.
large is a relative term. Assuming they started working part time at 16, If i reviewed a person who had 10 jobs by the time they were 25 that would be a red flag. If they have 10 jobs by 35 that would be less of a red flag.
I’m 28 and have had 10 jobs total since I turned 18.
Half of them are temporary jobs during school, half of them are because of natural professional growth that comes from being good at what i do.
You wouldn’t be including irrelevant professional history in the CV. I have had many jobs, but my last four are relevant to what I do now and are over a decade. Anything before that, no one would care or would be insignificant in time and skillset/experience.
In 25 years of working I’ve had 13 jobs for 4 companies. Seems like a lot, but most of the changes were just moving into related jobs paying incrementally better money, with the support of my manager.
Just looking at employers in my professional career. Two. One for 15 years then the current for 3.
Looking at my direct and diagonal leaders, they seem to average 3-5 years a role, and I consider staying with my prior employer for so long a mistake. I made career progression and promotions there, but it still slowed me down vs changing employers.
10 I think. 11 if a different job in the same company counts.
But in the beginning there was a lot of hit&miss before I actually ended up with what I consider a “proper job”, which skewes the total in a positive direction. A proper career started in 2008 for me, and while I have changed employer a few times, I’m mostly doing the same thing - IT in industries and places people normally don’t associate with IT. I’ve held four positions like this, two of them in the same company. I’m jumping ship this summer to do pretty much exactly the same but for a different employer and more money.
I’ve had 6, which I consider low for my age. A large number of jobs would be around one a year in working age.
I’m 32 and I’m on my tenth job in just under three years. I’d consider that a lot but I’m quite fickle when my job conditions are shit so it depends how you look at it.
10 jobs in 3 years? That over 3 jobs a year. I’m not saying you should stay in a job with bad conditions, but I’m not sure how you could look at it where that isn’t a ton of job in a short amount of time.
