What's the longest you've gone without a job?

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#1 kdsns
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This dosen't apply if you haven't ever had one, of course. Right now it's been almost six months since I quit my last one and I'm pretty much out of money and feeling pretty silly especially since I'm in college. Looking for jobs sucks...
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#2 YouAmStupid
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I spent last summer lazily unemployed. I really could have used the money I would have earned, so I feel pretty dumb about it.
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#3 Sajedene
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I'm sorry you're going through some tough times right now. But just be persistent and pro-active. Go to them and do not wait for them to come to you. Good luck!
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#4 Vanadium2k8
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Never been off the job :)

Obviously not including childhood. If we include childhood then it's 22 years.

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#5 LordXelNaga
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I went for about sixteen years without a proper job lol
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#6 yusefdoodi
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16 straight years of my life :P Then i started working at age 16
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#7 funnymario
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14 was my first proper job.
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#8 aaronmullan
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I've been going for 16 years :P But I don't think that counts.
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#9 soulless4now
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7 months and counting :P But I really do need to start looking for one since money=more games.
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#10 Marka1700
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Iv'e held my first job for 2.5 year for now. I was looking for a job for about 1.5 monts before I got it.
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#11 N8A
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about a year.
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#12 Andrew_Xavier
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14 was my first proper job.funnymario
^^^This, haven't been without one since.
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#13 Jaguar_Shade
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17 years :P
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#14 trentman7
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[QUOTE="funnymario"]14 was my first proper job.Andrew_Xavier
^^^This, haven't been without one since.

This.
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#15 Co0kieMonsterxX
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There was 6 months and one really lazy summer between my first job and the one I have now. I felt quite stupid for quitting that job.
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#16 princesszelda
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I went 18 years without a job since I didn't get my 1st job until I was 18. After that though i never went more than a month before I found a new job. I've currently had my job for almost six years.
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#17 CreepingDeath_
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I'll probably get my first job this year.
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#18 mindstorm
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In the past I've only worked the summers but now I also work during the school semesters. The longest times I haven't work before 10th grade is the time school or college is in session.
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#19 Gregson616
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I havent had one since last november!! And with the world in current economic slump, i think it maybe a little longer!!
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#20 ithilgore2006
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Just about 19 years.
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#21 aliblabla2007
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14 years, 2 months.
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#22 Shiggums
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First 15 years of my life. Man, it sucked being a kid with no job...
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#23 cyberdarkkid
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14 years and still going 8)
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#24 leeveeu
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From the moment I started working (in 2002), I've always been employed.
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#25 Big_Bad_Sad
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6 months on the dole. Happy days.

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#26 HybridPhoenix
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I got my first job when I was 15, worked there for a year and a couple months, quit in september to get a couple months of in grade 11, then I applied at HMV, and I've been working there for 2 and a half years
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#27 leilamayhem
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Worked straight through from the time I was 15 (I'm 24 now), through high school and university. I'm in law school now and not working for the first time because of the workload at school...but still do things like volunteer shifts at the legal clinic, and small contracts when I can.
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#28 kemar7856
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a month (most recent) longest is like 6 months
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#29 CurfewVII
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14 years.
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#30 mithrixx
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Never been out of work except for 6 months for an emergency.

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#31 SpruceCaboose
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The longest I have been without a job since I turned 16 has been about a week.
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#32 Lollicupkins
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3 months of hell.
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#33 DDRMom
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Almost 8 years. But I took on an unpaid postition as senior director of child management. ;)
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#34 Lance_C
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I got my first job at the age of 18. And the longest after that would probably be 2-3 months.
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#35 thirteen_zombie
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from when I was 1 day old to when I was 16 years old....and man how I miss those days...I just took a 4 day weekend and today is dragging me around like a ****** being pulled behind a car.
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#36 IVIadHatter
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Got out of college in may had my real job until october, quit, then got a job in november so it was a month and some change jobless, it was horrible. I don't count before college because my parents paid for everything that weren't luxuries(housing, food, etc.). It only counts when you are surviving by your income alone.
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#37 trodeback
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I went to a whole year of college without a job of any sort. Mostly because I made bank with a summer night janitor job and I would afford to just be lazy for the entire school year. Wouldn't recommend going that long without an income though cause once the school year was over I was dead broke and now living in debt the following year.