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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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:::Announcement:::
This month commemorates my 25th year of working in full time employment. That's also 25 years of commuting on tubes and trains in to London (the only gap I had was 3 months unemployment). Personally I think I deserve a medal for the latter and maybe a few free years of travel!
As I'm nosy I want to know how long people on here have been working so see the poll.
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: ln -s /London ~
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1.25 years (Plus some odds and ends).
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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Location: Here, but not all there.
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This is hard to decide.
I started my first job in 1980. I became self-employed in 2001, but have dipped in and out of paid work since. Technically, I am still self-employed, but with very little work around I may as well be unemployed.
Let's pretend I've been working since 1980. I feel old.
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
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Location: Wiltshire
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32 years  thankfully only about 10 years into London.  I saw the light and went self emloyed about 16 years  With the exception of one bad period I've, thankfully, managed to keep busy.
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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Since I left university in 1999 - so that's currently 13 years, with a break of seven months from when I was made redundant Christmas 2010. Also …  Mark
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
Posts: 4932
Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Same as the Egg, just without the university part.
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm
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Location: London
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Just in my 26th Year of what I would call “proper work”
Basically I have ignored part time jobs I did when I was in college / Poly and the odd jobs I had until I started in Midland Bank after I left Poly.
Since then I have (thankfully) been continuously employed although I did take a year’s sabbatical in 2004 but was still employed (just not getting paid)
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Proper job - 12 years
Inc paper round/uni bar work - 20 years.
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| Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:44 am |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm
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23 years 
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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It's either 22 or 23. I can't be bothered to work work out the whole months thing...
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
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Location: IoW
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Taking into account breaks for college courses and being made redundant twice, I'd estimate 23 years.
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
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Well if I count my part time job working on the checkout at Sainsbury's then 14 years.
I worked in a pub from 18 years so that was 12 years ago.
Erm... I need to change my vote. I put myself down for 15 to 19.
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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14 years since quitting uni in 98.
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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Had a six month period in 2001 when I did a bit of travelling/soul searching
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: behind the sofa
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I had my first job (sticking bits of leather together with super-glue and guillotining the heads off nails) age 14 back in 1984 and I've not had a year without work since.
However, "proper job" as in full-time I started a couple of years after I left college. I've been doing the same Telecom stuff ever since with just 3 months unemployed when I was made redundant 3 years ago, and a few months as a software dev for a company that went bust.
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