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In your life , have you had more different jobs or more different homes?

98 replies

SereneUser · 17/06/2024 13:03

Tie for me so 2 a piece

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Itsalwayssomething · 17/06/2024 18:44

2 a piece! 🤯

I’ve had fair few more than that… just counted. 14 homes and 12 jobs. It’s a bit of an ongoing joke about how often I change jobs. Though have been in current role now for 3 years. Go me 😂

Parky04 · 17/06/2024 18:45

5 homes, 4 jobs.

UnimaginableWindBird · 17/06/2024 18:52

11 homes, but that includes 4 different student halls/houses and the 5 different places my parents lived in my first 7 years, so most of my life has been spent in 2 different houses.

8 jobs.

Muffin101 · 17/06/2024 18:55

More jobs. I’ve had seven jobs, lived in four homes.

Fraa · 17/06/2024 18:58

9 homes as an adult.
9 full time jobs.
About 100 jobs if you include short casual and temping jobs.

Tangled123 · 17/06/2024 19:12

As an adult, definitely jobs but my Parents moved a lot when I was very young (from Aus, to Ireland, to NI), which added at lot to my numbers.
I moved a bit as an adult too; different houses in NI, lived in Aus and NZ for a year each, then back to NI), but I probably average 2 or 3 jobs for each house from after I left university.

My total numbers are probably:

15 homes (at least)
18 jobs

swapcicles · 17/06/2024 19:16

25 jobs (at least)
11 homes, currently been in this one 15 years and my 2nd 18.

DrinksbytheSea · 17/06/2024 19:55

18 homes
11 jobs

devildeepbluesea · 17/06/2024 19:57

Shedloads of each. I like change.

mrsm43s · 17/06/2024 19:59

So excluding weekend/holiday jobs and excluding university accommodations, then I've had 4 employers (but more roles) and 4 homes.

AddersAtDawn · 17/06/2024 20:01

Homes: 14, 8 of those as an adult.

Jobs: 5. Well, 5 different employers, sometimes various jobs at the same firm. And two of those were part time, teenage jobs.

WeightOfYourWorld · 17/06/2024 20:08

8 homes
4 jobs

CustardCream0472 · 17/06/2024 20:09

22 homes
30 jobs

And I'm still in my 30s! I knew it was a lot but wow. Been in my current job 5 years and current home 4 years though, no plans to leave either any time soon.

Sparklybutold · 17/06/2024 20:10

Homes - 11

Jobs - more than 11!

PrimaDoner · 17/06/2024 20:11

More different homes, by some distance.

zebrapig · 17/06/2024 20:14

13 homes, 8 jobs

WelshNerd · 17/06/2024 20:27

More homes than I thought: 8

Lots of Jobs: 16

mamaduckbone · 17/06/2024 20:42

Are we counting student houses and part time jobs? That might take a while.
If we're talking 'proper' jobs and actual hornes rather than rented student places, then jobs.

Caffeineneedednow · 17/06/2024 21:03

Jobs 9 -includes things like babysitting and paper round when younger.
Houses -11 but we have now bought our forever house ( hopefully) and while there's scope to extend / renovate there are no plans to move.

Hihihello193 · 17/06/2024 21:11

I'm late 30's and left home at 16, by then I had lived in 2 houses.
At this point I've had
23 jobs
26 houses
I was very poor and had lots of temp jobs / boring jobs / trying out stuff.
Since finding my calling I've held jobs for 2yrs, then 3yrs, then for 8 years. The houses were I guess part of wild youth. Luckily out of my system. I've lived in my current place 10 years!

RuthW · 17/06/2024 21:20

5 homes in 56 years.

Three jobs. Current one 33 years.

2Old2Tango · 17/06/2024 21:24

3 jobs, including the Saturday job as a teen.

3 houses as an adult, 4 if you include my childhood home (I'm 60).

RedYellowPinkGreenPurpleOrangeBlue · 17/06/2024 21:29

SereneUser · 17/06/2024 13:03

Tie for me so 2 a piece

More jobs. Around 11-12 jobs. (Although one was temping, and over 3 years I worked for about a dozen different employers. I will include that as one though.)

I have lived in 8 different homes.

TheBottomsOfMyTrousersAreRolled · 17/06/2024 21:31

10 homes. 11 if we are including uni halls.

8 jobs. Not including placements.

Sunpiercer · 17/06/2024 21:32

Jobs - 2 (although I have had various roles in my company of 11 years! 7)
Houses - 5 (2 owned)

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