I was up to 14 at age 25. When you’re young and inexperienced, any schmuck that will pay you and be slightly less abusive than the last guy is worth working for, and you never owe the last person anything.
Just had a talk about this exact topic in an interviewer today. Talked about how a growing number of companies on my resume no longer exist, and the guy interviewing me said he had the same thing. It’s a rough business world we live in. I’m not gonna hold the number of jobs a person has had against them. In fact, it speaks of experience. Not deep, but certainly wide.
“Welcome aboard, Johnny Sins”
“That’s so cool man. What was the weirdest one?”
I say that rookie numbers for that age. I am 44 and had at least the high hundreds. He little old but needs to pump those numbers up.
Make friends with the guy. He’s got some some stories. True or not, he’s got some stories.
Oh got stories. It be easier to tell you what I haven’t done, then to list what I have done for work.
“neat.” then I go back to doing my job
Depends entirely on what the job is.
Is the 42 year old a welder? Then 48 different jobs might mean they’re in super high demand and contract out to high paying, low time frame jobs.
Is the 42 year old a cop or a priest? Probably skips town a lot for… reasons…
Most any other job might just mean they’ve had an interesting life and like to try new things. Their broad experience might mean they’re great for what they’re currently doing.
Even if he’s a coder I wouldn’t be surprised. Also I spent 5 years as a consultant and worked fot 1 company in about 10 diferent companies doing different things, is that 10 differenr jobs?!
I would ask follow up questions to his statement
Did you switch the keycaps for your r’s and t’s?
Tbf it’s very hard to type on my phone. The keyboard is tiny and I always make mistakes. I don’t even care anymore lol
besides I’m old and typing in my bed at night I can’t see much haha
I’m not going to fault anyone for typos. I fight my phone’s autocorrect all the time, but it was odd that just those two letters were transposed
“Cool, tell me about them. Sounds like an interesting life.”
Let’s judge him for doing something different, while being too afraid of doing the same.
There’s not enough context here to have a strong opinion, but I’ll add that personally, nothing has given me a bigger raise than getting a job at another company.
why would i need an opinion on that?
If I’m a coworker in this situation I don’t care. If I’m a manager in this situation I just don’t bother training them on anything but the basics for the job.
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
This is the answer.
Also what types of employers. Large companies vs small business.
Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?
If it’s the last one, I’m bringing my lunch to work to watch the show as the boss gets pissed.
That the person probably won’t stick around for long. I’d still give them a fair chance, but if they up and quit one day out of nowhere I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m not in charge of the hiring though, so I just work with whoever I’m told to work with.
I’d say it is none of my business what they did for employment prior to where they are now and stay out of their life.
I’m 38 and I’ve had about half of that, but the vast majority was from 16-25. They were all shitty retail things or short term odd job type things, but work is work so I include them if someone asks how many jobs I’ve had except on a resume of course. I just stick to relevant things there.
I’ve done everything from retail, to refrigeration diagnostic work. From wiping ass and giving meds, to even being a carnie. The only type of jobs I’ve never had are “real people jobs” like office work. I’m just a subhuman meat machine.
