How many years of experience do you have

[flvegan]

in your industry/profession?

This question also applies if you're a "stay at home" mom/dad/wife/husband (the hardest, least appreciated job, if you ask me). If you're retired, same question, applied before retirement.

If unemployed, how many years do you have in your chosen field?

If a student...ummm...what year of schooling are you in?

[Critters2]

1. 20 years. Had a big ol' anniversary celebration in September nt

[TimeChaser]

2. Um.,. I'm a sophmore zoology major

Although technically I have enough credits to be considered a junior now

[lizziegrace]

3. 25 now

:eyes:

And I've loved every single minute.

[SPKrazy]

17. Awww!

It isn't all it's cracked up to be, this being grown up and all is it!

more fun being in school, or whatever.

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

24. All the woulda shoulda coulda's

Wish I'd stayed in music. When I was in college, they started a music business/recording major. Now THAT sounds like more fun than being an accountant.

:(

[SPKrazy]

25. Hmmmmm

One would think that you could take that accounting knowledge and take it into a business like music business/recording. Although, I can tell you that is or was anyhow, a hard business to get into. Today with the capability to make CD's so much more easily, no telling what you could do.

You're my age lizzie, we ain't done yet!

The world is our oyster!

:pals:

[billyskank]

4. Eight and a half

working with Oracle databases.

[LynzM]

9. Billy! I'm a lowly end-user of yours....

I spend most of most work days in Oracle Clinical, and related programs pulling data out of OC dbs... :hi:

[billyskank]

11. Oh no not of mine

I don't work for Oracle. I just develop Oracle-based applications. Forms, PL/SQL, JDBC, that sort of thing. :hi:

[LynzM]

30. Ah, gotcha....

Well, sounds like more fun that what I do, either way! :hi:

[LeftyMom]

5. mom- five 1/2 years, retail wage slave- 8 years, college student- 1 year

Reading that, I think I have too many jobs! :(

[Little Wing]

6. 10

[BarenakedLady]

7. 10 years

10 very looooooong years being a SAHM. I'm done with all that now...well soon hopefully.

Prior to that, I was a pet-sitter for a couple of years (best damn job EVAH!)

Before that, I was a secretary for the State of RI Department Of Corrections (aka prison) for 5 years.

[azmouse]

8. Happily unemployed for 7 yrs.

[LynzM]

10. Just over two years....

Doing clinical data management. Another year before that doing database design/creation/admin stuff. And I'm going on 9 years as a student... :rofl:

[lizziegrace]

13. To us!

:toast:

I did the "13 year, 4 states and one child later" college plan. :)

[LynzM]

32. Woo-hoo!

I'm currently on the "9 year, 6 schools, three states and two countries, and one child later" plan, myself! :rofl:

:toast:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. 3 years.

[swag]

14. Thirteen.

And of course I just sort of drifted into this field.

[SPKrazy]

15. 20 Years

since grad school started anyway

18 in practice

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Junior in college

But, I went to CC first, then straight into Junior year. Was part time for a while, so I'm definitely a "non-trad" student :)

[SPKrazy]

31. But, Are You Experienced!

(Jimi Hendrix ya know!)

:evilgrin:


:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

46. Bwahahaha!

Depends on what we're talking about! :evilgrin:

Yes, in many things, i am...Cooking, Knitting, Screwing, Car repair/maintenance, and general bitch-ery :D

You... :rofl:

:loveya:

[SPKrazy]

48. See, You Are Very Experienced!

can you fix my car?

multi-talented bi bi baby!

:loveya: :yourock:

[bicentennial_baby]

50. Depends....

What Make/Model/Year...and what's wrong with it? :D


Naaah, that's you! :yourock:

my newest DU homie :D

:loveya:

[SPKrazy]

51. Hey Homie!

Nothing's really wrong with my car, I just said that in case it did break down. Although getting it to MA would be a trick!

Congrats again on your engagement, I think that is cool!

:loveya: :hug:

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Six years getting a paycheck.

Going on 17 being home with the kids. (I work from my house)

[bluethruandthru]

19. 25 years in Radio.

Keeps you young!

[pdx_prog]

20. 22 years now....

Tried to get out of this industry. I started a consulting business out of my house but started doing work for a competitor of the company I did work for. They offered me a position so I went right back into the same industry I left.....ho hummmmm....

[evlbstrd]

21. 30.

Egads.

[Maine-ah]

22. stay at home mom...

9 weeks. Previously, retail foodservice 15 years.

[rockymountaindem]

23. Well, let's see...

I've been in school since I was four, so... 16 years.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. 35

[Bunny]

27. 27.

All of my adult (after college) working life.

[Deja Q]

28. 19 years here.

[sakabatou]

29. 2-3 years

[In_The_Wind]

33. 12 years

of being retired :freak: does that count?

[billyskank]

35. For sure

:hug:

:loveya:

[WhollyHeretic]

34. 6 Months

I just switched careers from carpentry to computers.

[Jimbo S]

36. 17 years...16 too many

[RetroLounge]

37. ~20 years in the IT profession...

beginning my journey in the bookstore business now, less than a year...

:hi:

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

38. Unfuckingfortunately, I have 10 years experience in being a student.

In my eleventh now. (Sophomore in HS.)

:eyes:

:P

[rug]

39. 18 1/2 years.

[GOPisEvil]

40. About a year (after 13 years of government work).

I like the job a lot, but my boss is sometimes quite the moran. :eyes:

[Zavulon]

41. Five. My previous job was entirely different, and I don't miss it a bit.

[LSK]

42. starting my 11th year in IT

8 years at the same place.

[Lyric]

43. Stay-at-home Mom, 7 years experience

I stay at home due to health problems, but I work harder here than I ever did "out there". The difference is that I can sit down and rest on my own schedule, as opposed to having to "stay productive" on someone else's schedule.

Before my son was born, I worked the following jobs:

1. Supervisor of the night shift at a poultry production plant
2. Packer/examiner at an aluminum tube manufacturing plant
3. Call center rep for Zogby International (doing political and market research polling--no selling)
4. Grocery store cashier

[JuniperLea]

45. I did 10 years in your spot

Best job ever! And the kids turn out so well when they have mom at home. We decided to cut corners, cut coupons and manage on one income. Best decision ever. All three kids graduated high school, all three went to college and one has two degrees so far.

Are you ever told how different your kids are?

[Lyric]

49. I only have one at the moment

And he's probably the best mannered, most emotionally stable and happy child I've ever known. He has an amazing vocabulary, too. He speaks more like an adult than a child. My domestic partner and I have raised him together since the day he was born. If you listened to the fundie phobes, our little one should already be robbing banks and sodomizing farm animals, due to our "Ebil Homoseckshual Lyfestile!!!111" :rofl:

[JuniperLea]

57. LOL!! Yeah, maybe your bright baby will grow up and teach them all something

I was always being told how well behaved my kids were. They knew the difference between cutting up at home and behaving properly in public or in other people's homes. Their teachers were always saying exactly what you just said. My oldest spoke so well by age two that it really freaked people out. It was kind of creepy sometimes. He's a technical writer/chemical engineer now.

But shame on me! I worked part time for a gay couple for many years, in their home office. I brought my kids over there all the time. My kids loved those guys so much and the guys loved them back... in a very parental and honorable way (I know I don't have to explain that to you, but, you know). I loved that they had an influence on my kids. Both of these men were the most trustworthy individuals I've ever known. I trusted them with not only my life, but the lives of my kids.

People are so stupid. Sexuality has nothing to do with being good people.

[JuniperLea]

44. 20 years in communications and Executive Assistant

From correspondence manager at a tpa to assistant to the managing director at a PR firm.

[HEyHEY]

47. four, I think... does college count?

[Goblinmonger]

52. 20 years as a sex machine

before that: 3 years as an apprentice. I have many years as a solo practicioner.

[av8rdave]

53. 28 years in aviation...19 years in airline business

[graywarrior]

54. 20 years sobriety this February as opposed to the previous 23 years of drunken hooplah

[Ekirh]

55. NIne Months

IN a soy sauce factory

Probably won't last much longer. . . I doubt I'll make it through the next month (Just not performing to their standards)

[WCGreen]

56. Twenty two years as an accountant/tax adviser ...

[femmocrat]

58. 18? or 19?

Not sure, since I was furloughed, cut to part-time, and then called back. I'll get them in the end though, as they will be paying me a higher salary since I have to stay longer before I retire! HA!

[Ptah]

59. 32 for money

45 since grandpa taught me blacksmithing

[Nikia]

60. 6 years in food processing quality/technology

Quite honestly, I don't recommend this field to anyone.
I do have marketable skills in this though and want to make more than $10/hour so I am staying with this for now.
After a few years at my current company (I have been there less than a year), I hope to get a job at a bigger company where this sort of work pays well and perhaps isn't as bad. If not, perhaps I'll reconsider a different career.

[GenDem]

61. 18 years trying to be a fine artist....

Lots of house, dog, cat portraits -- especially at holiday time.

Had to do a little diversifying and go into some part time teaching at a school a couple days a week and a couple more days teaching senior classes.

Can't do anything else :shrug:

[Rosemary2205]

62. 24yrs in fast food management - 7 months as an HR middle mgr.

and 4 years experience in a wheelchair. == which is why I don't do fast food district mgt anymore.

[elifino]

63. How many years

Retired now for 2 years after 45 with the same company. They retain me to work part-time from home.

[gemdem]

64. 25 years

of trying to finesse my way through a technical field with and English degree. So far, no one has really caught on that I'm making it all up as I go along. Which either goes to show that I'm brilliant or that IT ain't as tough as it's been made out to be (keeping up with technology not withstanding).

Given my druthers, however, I'd prefer to be celebrating 25 years of a career of teaching English or to have been working in the Peace Corps -- both of which I was considering before I met the missus, got married, had kids, and got tangled up in the golden handcuffs of an IT salary to support those choices. Ah Life! Ain't it amazing. :-)

[Dastard Stepchild]

65. PhD student...

At this point, I have been a student for 26 of my 31 years. Woohoo!

[madrchsod]

66. 20 years in the steel industry

in one form or another,over 7 years of unemployment,co owned a decorating business for 20 years. currently unemployed