Shortest Job, Longest Job
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112802)
United States
November 15, 2019 6:45pm CST
In our work lives, we take on many roles. We do many things. Over the years our worth ethics change. I posted something on Facebook hoping to make a bit of a trend out of it, and out of pure curiosity.
It is a simple question.
What was your shortest job? What was your longest job?
My shortest job was Zipp's Drive Thru, a hamburger place. I worked there for 4 hours. That was it. My longest job was Coca-Cola Enterprises. I worked there for 6 1/2 years.
What was your shortest job and what was your longest job?
Anecdotes welcome. It will make this discussion way more fun. I will go into detail about either of these two jobs if asked. This should be fun.
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11 responses
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
16 Nov 19
Hmm, I think the shortest one was two hours as a horn teacher substitute when I was about 14. Not sure it'd count as a job though, as it was nearly too short. The second shortest was 3 days with news paper delivery. I was shown the way the first day, it seemed quite OK. Then between that and the next day it snowed so much I couldn't recognize a thing, I got totally lost and after the next day I decided I wasn't meant to get up at 3AM to get lost in snow.
My longest is the one I have now, 9.5 years teaching. Might change it next summer, time will show.
What did you for Coca-Cola?
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
16 Nov 19
@porwest Many of my collegues have been there for 30+ years, so I still feel like I started quite recently :-)
Supervisor = making sure the coca-cola tastes right? I like the sound of that (and I like coca-cola, but trying to go for the zero version)
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
17 Nov 19
I worked one day for Walmart. Something better came along. I worked the longest in Child Care at the military center. From age 17-25 . My daddy retired from the Air Force and we moved back to the United States.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
16 Nov 19
Shortest was a gas station clerk
Longest was hairdresser
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Nov 19
My shortest job was an assembly line job. I don't know how long I worked there, maybe a week. I couldn't keep up. They tried to find a place I fit in. It didn't happen. My longest was the call center job. I worked there for 11 years.
@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
16 Nov 19
Worked for a real estate developer in his accounting office of the party center that he owned for one day. There wasn't enough for me to do; and we had to clean his office at the end of the day. The longest job was an Accounting Office Manager for a nursery supply retail/wholesale operation (tree supplies, not babies) that lasted 15 years.
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@yoalldudes (35030)
• Philippines
16 Nov 19
My shortest was in a credit card company 3 months. My longest is my government job 16 years.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
16 Nov 19
My shortest was folding and stuffing Hawaiian clothing patterns. Guess I stuffed too slow. Longest was 27 years as a secretary in a health dept.
@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
16 Nov 19
My first job was a laborer in a warehouse where we carried small drums for loading onto a truck. I lasted only 4 days because I was a temp there.
@MommyOfEli2013 (89485)
• Rupert, Idaho
16 Nov 19
Shortest job - babysitter. I worked 2 days I think and then the mom lost her job; so I lost mine. Longest; working in the hospital cafeteria.
