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Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« on: Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:01:10 »
What's the longest you've gone without a job?
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:05:29 »
Almost 16 years so far.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:14:16 »
Made it 16 years 10 months.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #3 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 22 October 2015, 23:27:39 »
21 years
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 00:29:33 »
well technically,  I have a job.. sort of.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #6 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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I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 05:38:51 »
14years.
And right now I'm at 23days unemployed, feelsweirdman.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 05:53:35 »
First 16 years of my life
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 06:04:00 »
Conversely, I'm getting into 20 years in the same company! LOL!
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #10 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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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #11 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #12 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #13 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #14 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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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
-Ray Bradbury

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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #15 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #16 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #17 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #18 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 15:06:39 »
around 8 months. hooray funemployment!
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #19 on: Fri, 23 October 2015, 15:08:36 »
Almost 7 years before getting laid off
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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #20 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #21 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #22 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #23 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #24 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #25 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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Re: Longest you've gone w/o a job?
« Reply #26 on: Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:38:00 »
Longest 2 years of my life....... Can't stand it.
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