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[Poll #1370394]

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[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Three employed jobs, but if you count freelancing (I do that for 1.5 days a week) it brings it to 15-20...

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

It does depend on how you measure it though :-).

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

My 12 includes a couple of part-time things whilst a (mature) student

[emperor]

I'm not counting my PhD studentship as a job - this is my first postdoc post.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I said 4, only I forgot one fixed term contract that should have counted.

I excluded temping, part time, freelance and voluntary work as otherwise the definitions started to get confusing and it becomes hard to count ;-).

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

I've had two paid jobs, but I've been unpaid in my current job for the last 7 years..... no sick leave, no holidays, no maternity leave, and as for the people I have to work with......!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Three main ones; various side gigs that it would be misleading to count.

And, FWIW, the three posts represent two different careers. First job (aka the false start) was as an analyst in a cubicle; second two positions have been in education.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Given that this covers my entire employment life 6 seems awfully few - especially as three of those (NHS, British Library and Government Department) are technically all one employer for pension purposes.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, my partner has had a reasonably varied career so far within one sector, but has even then technically only had 2 jobs (although one involved a bit of moving up and laterally within one department).

[segh.livejournal.com]

I haven't counted temping and freelance.

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

My approximate 10 included temping.

I've only had 2 non-temping jobs.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I'll need you to clarify before answering:
If you get promoted at the same employer, does that count as a different job? If you take on a different role at the same employer, does that count as a different job?

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

I said 2 as I've worked for 2 different companies since I graduated.

However, I've had several different roles where I work at the moment, so technically it's more if you count all of them.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I counted freelancing as one job, being promoted to a higher grade but still doing essentially the same job, with the same title as one job, but doing a completely different job, with a different title as another job.

I think my career (wow, I've got a career, how did that happen?) illustrates that job-numbers vary wildly - although I've had nine jobs in 25 years, eight of them were in the first 15 years - the last two jobs have lasted over ten years between them.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to count doing different jobs in the same organisation, either as part of a training programme, or tutoring two different courses. 4 by the conservative count, 7 by the other.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I've counted relatively long-term temping, and part-time, but not the contracts I've had while self-employed, nor my various tutoring stints, nor one-week temp jobs here and there.

On the whole I'm very glad that I've now got one full-time employer with whom I intend to stay, circumstances permitting, as long as I can!

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

One employer, multiple work locations ...

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I ahve included being a freelance since 1984 as just one job, despite the fact that what I do has mutated substantially.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Define 'work'. Define 'job'. Define 'properly'. Do ones lasting a day, or without pay, count???

TBH...don't think I can answer that. Even with definitions ;)