Have most people here worked most of their working lives?

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Or are there some that have been largely unemployed, also have most people stayed in their home town/city, I am just trying to gauge as when we left school we were of the attitude that you just go out and get on with it and find your own way, not in a nasty way but looking back that's how it seemed. I could have happily stayed at home with my folks, but wanted to get away after school and uni was only real option hence to the city and it must have been like being out there taking on the world by yourself, I sometimes wondered how I have managed so far which I probably haven't very well. Basically if you don't have support, friends and family and are in an unfamiliar place and are very used to home comforts then it can be a struggle, how did/do you get on?
 
Have only ever once been unemployed, that was for 2 weeks when I was about 24, moved back up from surrey to the North East and it took me that long to find a job.
 
Since 16 I've had one year off work (worked during the rest), and that was because I was being a lazy bugger. Now I am working again because I am no longer a lazy bugger :D
 
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During the time you have been working, have you spent most of it working? That's what the title sounds like to me...

But yes, since I was 16 I've worked pretty much constantly, think there was a month gap between my first and second job though.
 
Worked since I left college with the exception of a fortnight on Jobseekers when I first left school. Moved from West Lothian to Aberdeenshire and then back a couple of years later.
 
Mostly working - first few years of working (rather than doing temp jobs alongside study) I was working where I grew up - was also pretty patchy going from 6month to a year contract to another 6month to a year contract. Then spent about 3 years on a permanent job only to be made redundant when they moved. After that I moved away to start another job only for that to fall through. Spent a few months unemployed until I had the chance to move back to my parents where I found another job shortly after and been doing that job ever since.
 
Worked since 1979.
1st, company 8 years
2nd, 19 years (redundant/heart attack)
3rd, 3 years (redundant)
18 months dole
4th Self employed (driving instructor.. LOL)
5th, 1 year (ill health/heart attack)
been off 4 months

So about 34+ years total. Possibly finished now due to 2nd heart attack. Hence spending empty hours on this forum.

I had worked long enough to have paid up my state pension in full, until the gits changed the rules..
 
Ive had 3 jobs since i was 17...the first two when i left school...the job itself wasn't bad...the people were!

My current is great though,Been there since 2007.
 
Born 1958
First paid job in 1970 at 12 years old as a musician and that as continued until now.
First paid non musician job at 13 delivering papers
Also worked on an ice cream van at 13
and a bread van at 14
First proper job at 16 (1974) Michelin Apprentice
Moved jobs in 1980 where I worked for 27 years on an assembly factory.
Made redundant in 2007 and was on the dole for 6 months while I went to College to better myself. During this time some of the OCUK babies poured scorn on me for claiming £58 even though I'd put in the system for 33 years.
Employed in March 2008 and still working.

So since my first 'proper' job in 1974 I've had 6 months off but I was scum for claiming for 6 months.
 
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So since my first 'proper' job in 1974 I've had 6 months off but I was scum for claiming for 6 months.
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I've noticed that too, which is why I don't often mention being off. (even though my heart is trashed now) What makes me laugh is you and I, have probably worked longer than most of them have lived.
 
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yep since 1987, all though college and uni i had a job, only had 6 months off working when i moved here in 2010.
 
Longest was two months when I was signed off by the Docs. Have worked in a couple of different cities, found work to be the anchor when in an unfamiliar place, something to steady yourself with.
 
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