How many jobs have you held in your lifetime?

I'm assuming you mean career-type jobs, not like after-school type jobs...

I am assuming not counting summer jobs and varying positions within the same company over a time period.

What are we counting as jobs? Part time, during school, etc.? Temping? Or only full time jobs? And I am both content with my current job, for the moment, and not content, in the sense that I have hopes of doing something else someday.

paper stuffer, busboy, apprentice tiler, WACCC, video store clerk, summer o' temp jobs, co-op #1: Heald, co-op #2: Apollo, Atria/Pure Atria/Rational. ...and a few odd ones I'm not going to count. Methinks your scale doesn't go high enough!

I've been there 2.5 years...only reason I'm still there is the fact that they are flexible with my schedule.

More than 7 if I count part-time stuff, but only 5 full-time jobs.

More than 7. As for full-time work after college, that would be 3.

More than 7 for part-time or summer jobs, only 3 full-time jobs not counting different positions within a company.

who's counting? :)... put it this way... A LOT

If I just counted full-time work after college it would be be 1 (and even that is a little misleading as I started working where I am now before I got out of college). Oh, and the name of the company has changed a few times due to mergers and acquisitions -- each time it doubled in size and the corporate values changed -- so, it's unclear if I should count my current job more than once.

Nothing is simple.

I am happy where I am for now.

How about "I am sort of content"? I like the work and some of the people. But wish there were more upward mobility. I held a lot of jobs working through college.

My intent was any kind of job, I thought that was implied by saying "jobs" and not specifying.

bill: it does too go high enough, "more than 7" usually means 7 to infinity. Sorry if I can't please all of you, but you know what Bill cosby says, "I don't know the key to succes, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."

Firefly_618 - given that there are 4 times more people selecting "more than seven" than there are in any other category, I think it might have been better to extend the range of answers, or perhaps double them up (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc...). No big deal though, it didn't ruin the survey...

Where's a "0" option? I have currently never had a job, but I'm hoping to get one during summer vacation.

I'll assume part time jobs count for this survey. If it's full time only, none until May.

depends on how you count, naturally, but 5 or so.
And I like my job!

All types of jobs: part-time, full-time, temporary, etc.

On the content w/ your job or not options: content or not content in any way, shape, or form.

later, reading Firefly_618's comment, I revoted to "more than 7" (damned if I know how many, but certainly 8+)

how about "i'm not happy at all but am waiting for stuff i already should have earned to become mine" (options clock, anyone?)

I'm only counting full-time jobs.

OK, I changed it (from 7 to more than 7) based on firefly's comment.

Each has been a stepping stone to the next. The number may be more a sign of how old I am and not how restless I've been (I counted 10 - although I changed jobs several times while working for the same boss 8.5 years).

I move often, so my jobs used to change a lot. Until I started my own business :)

I've had two waitressing jobs that I quit, and now have two babysitting jobs that add up to almost full time. I'm rakin' it in!

I had two ice cream jobs :)

I chose a kind of arbitrary (approximately correct number) because I've held a number of "quasi-jobs" - postdoctoral researcher, which is really a job but pays half what a "real job" in the same field does, etc.