Shortest Time In a Job

**isucy86** · 06-15-2008, 02:23 PM

The "problem" regarding athletes transferring has been a hot buttom since Wesley's transfer. IMO the criticism is unwarranted, since I think most of us have changed post-college jobs because we weren't happy.

Personally, I was in a job 2 months & moved on. For a couple years it was something that ate at me because I didn't stick it out longer. However, life is about learning from our mistakes and moving ahead.

**clone2011** · 06-15-2008, 02:26 PM

2 weeks at Subway. No regrets.

But I assume you're talking about "real world" jobs, not high school/college gigs.

**cstrunk** · 06-15-2008, 02:27 PM

I worked 2 months at the ISU call center and realized it wasn't for me. No regrets about quitting, I now drive for CyRide.

**CycloneErik** · 06-15-2008, 02:29 PM

I did a job for one week. They weren't exactly honest on the pay they were offering. I figured that it wasn't going to get much better if they were doing that the first week.

Just before that, I was laid off (with all the other temps) after 4 days on a job.

**isucy86** · 06-15-2008, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by clone2011

2 weeks at Subway. No regrets.

But I assume you're talking about "real world" jobs, not high school/college gigs.

Yep, I'm talking about after college jobs, thanks for the comment I'll edit my post.

**CYdTracked** · 06-15-2008, 02:31 PM

After college job I have been with the same company just over 5 years now so that is what I am counting. However, even most jobs before that usually 2+ years at unless it was seasonal work such as 1 of my HS summer jobs was.

**Flag Guy** · 06-15-2008, 02:38 PM

Opps after college jobs... still at that one.

My shortest time at a job was 1 semester at Campus Book Store. I reeeeeeeally wanted to quit a few times but I did stay the entire semester. I think I was the only one... (That had been hired at the beginning of the semester anyways... there were a few that had been there longer)

**crash_zone** · 06-15-2008, 02:57 PM

but how many of use have a job we KNOW will end in 2 yrs? Wes's situation was different because of that. 1 more good year, and he could test the draft.

**Steve** · 06-15-2008, 03:40 PM

A kid from my home town got hired for a summer job at a poultry processing plant. He walked off as soon as he saw what the job involved. He supposedly received a severance check of 17 1/2 cents. I assume that the government got their 2 cents worth from that check.

**Phaedrus** · 06-15-2008, 10:34 PM

I've jumped around on jobs quite a bit in my life. Since 2001, I've been a contractor of one type or another, some of which just lasted a couple weeks.

Once, in college, I quit McDonald's after a week, when the management changed the terms of our hiring agreement, after I was hired.

But I've never violated an employment contract, and I've never outright deceived an employer about my future with them.

That would make me a dishonorable, deceptive, unmanly piece of crap, just like Weaselly Johnson.

And I never want too much of a man to be that much of a wuss.

**Wesley** · 06-15-2008, 10:37 PM

I know someone who walked out after one day.

**cowboycurtis** · 06-15-2008, 10:42 PM

my first job out of college lasted 10 months. lucky i lasted that long.

second job lasted 4 years and was great experience.

now i have a small business of my own and farm. would expect that to last until i am 70, with some good luck.

**iowa_wildcat** · 06-15-2008, 10:51 PM

I ran a jack hammer for one day that had a tamping foot on it. I was packing dirt around concrete bridge footings that went up a fairly steep embankment. When I told the foreman at 6 PM that I would not be back the next day, he smiled and thanked me. He said that most did not last until noon.

**cowboycurtis** · 06-15-2008, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by iowa_wildcat

I ran a jack hammer for one day that had a tamping foot on it. I was packing dirt around concrete bridge footings that went up a fairly steep embankment. When I told the foreman at 6 PM that I would not be back the next day, he smiled and thanked me. He said that most did not last until noon.

I ran a jack hammer on wednesday for 3 hours straight. Worst thing I have ever done and would not wish that on my worst enemy. Ruined the rest of my week.

**dunar** · 06-16-2008, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by cstrunk

I worked 2 months at the ISU call center and realized it wasn't for me. No regrets about quitting, I now drive for CyRide.

For the Foundation? I did a semester there and moved on to... no job for awhile after that, but I really didn't like begging for money. I wish I still had my call dialogue sheet.

I did 3-4 weeks at the Iowa State Center that summer - I was mostly on outside calls. Moving picnic tables, putting up fencing, and my favorite, hosing down the sidewalk in front of the Scheeman Building...