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Title: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
Post by: digi on Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:01:10
What's the longest you've gone without a job?
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Post by: Air tree on Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:05:29
Almost 16 years so far.
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Post by: Joey Quinn on Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:14:16
Made it 16 years 10 months.
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Post by: noisyturtle on Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:25:46
A little under 6 years between 2008 and 2014, but 4 1/2 years of that was college.
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Post by: fknraiden on Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:27:39
21 years
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Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 23 October 2015, 00:29:33
well technically,  I have a job.. sort of.
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Post by: iri on Fri, 23 October 2015, 05:11:35
Almost three months. Well, I've been working from time to time on ****ty jobs that time.
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Post by: azhdar on Fri, 23 October 2015, 05:38:51
14years.
And right now I'm at 23days unemployed, feelsweirdman.
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Post by: trenzafeeds on Fri, 23 October 2015, 05:53:35
First 16 years of my life
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Post by: Belfong on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:04:00
Conversely, I'm getting into 20 years in the same company! LOL!
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Post by: iri on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:15:51
Quote from: Belfong on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:04:00
Conversely, I'm getting into 20 years in the same company! LOL!
Seems impossible for me.

To not get kicked from the UK (Tym's dream), I need to spend at least the next 4.5 years with the same company and it sounds like a prison sentence to me.
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Post by: Belfong on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:30:06
I can't believe it either. But time just flies and in a blink of an eye, I've spent two decades here! I can't believe it myself either!
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Post by: osi on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:43:40
1 Month when I moved from VA to FL.

I've been working since I could drive at age 16 and now I'm pushing 30. Living the American dream kids
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Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:47:25
I've been doing some kind of work since I was ~14, so I've been working over half my life.
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Post by: iri on Fri, 23 October 2015, 12:11:52
I've been working officially for half of my life, since 15 to 30. Made my first money at 11.
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Post by: jbondeson on Fri, 23 October 2015, 12:22:23
I have not been without a job since I was 15.

Was at my last company for 12 years where I held 10 different job titles in that time.
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Post by: cmadrid on Fri, 23 October 2015, 14:32:25
Haven't worked since just before my son was born, almost 7 years now
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 23 October 2015, 14:56:07
18 years from birth til shortly after high school.

Not counting that, 8 months. And it was a great 8 months.
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Post by: Lurch on Fri, 23 October 2015, 15:06:39
around 8 months. hooray funemployment!
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Post by: Toad1677 on Fri, 23 October 2015, 15:08:36
Almost 7 years before getting laid off
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Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 23 October 2015, 15:32:59
15 years before the first job, then various terms of unemployment during school.
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Post by: Pwner on Fri, 23 October 2015, 16:31:00
Quote from: jbondeson on Fri, 23 October 2015, 12:22:23
I have not been without a job since I was 15.

Was at my last company for 12 years where I held 10 different job titles in that time.

Same here.

Been with my current company [2nd job since I was 15] for just over 12 years.  Only difference is I've only had 1 job title.. it's hard to want to try and move up when you'd have to take a pay cut to do so. lol
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Post by: romevi on Fri, 23 October 2015, 16:35:11
Started working when I was nine for my grandfather doing manual labor. My first job for a company was at my uncle's laundromat when I was twelve doing mopping and cleaning, then I served as a law clerk the week after I turned 16, and worked there until I quit and couldn't find a job for three months in 2008.

So three months is the longest.

During that time, though, I did manual labor again just to get out and keep myself busy, even if it was for meager change, while at night I job hunted and took off necessary days for interviews. Been employed since.
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Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 23 October 2015, 18:43:55
Quote from: Belfong on Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:30:06
I can't believe it either. But time just flies and in a blink of an eye, I've spent two decades here! I can't believe it myself either!

It's mostly because of "family"

Once you sign up on that contract,   there's really just one pace..

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Post by: inanis on Fri, 23 October 2015, 18:56:40
The only time I didn't have a job was in my early twenties. I ended up getting laid off and then just had no job. It was probably 3 months, maybe 2. It was awful. I need a productive workplace to keep me sane, which is interesting since work drives me crazy.

The only other time I was away from work was for maternity leave. I was pretty ready to go back when that time was up.
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Post by: GenKaan on Tue, 03 November 2015, 03:29:36
Right now Im celebrating my third month work free, in reality I checked out five months ago but one of them was just making a manual for the next guy and one was double paid vacation. Feels great man, already taught myself HTML and CSS. Now working on JavaScript and jQuery

Really dont want to go to school again, but in the end there is a possibility I have to. 
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Post by: Bartlebum on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:38:00
Longest 2 years of my life....... Can't stand it.