Yeah, i skipped that question because my answer is about the same. I’ve been at this job for more than 25 years, and the prior one for several years, too. But when you average in my summer jobs in highschool and stuff, you get a misleading answer.
My average in each of the seven jobs I’ve had since college is 4.7 years. My longest by far was 19 years, in the job I had before my current one. I never expected to be there that long, but I liked the work and my colleagues, got nice pay raises, and just stayed on.
I never had a job longer than two years except my current job which I’ve had for eight years. The vast majority of jobs I held for less than one year. A lot of that time was in high school, during college or interrupted by graduate school. After graduate school I had two good jobs interrupted by my husband’s schooling and three shit jobs I quit early on.
I won’t be surprised if I’m here until I die.
Seconding. Didn’t answer – wasn’t going to take the time to try to work out an average, when I’m not even sure I remember all the early jobs and how long I was at each one.
I just counted how many years I worked in total, and how many jobs I had across that time….
Yeah, I love chocolate, and I like cereal. But one try with Cocoa Puffs was enough. Nasty.
Yes, the marshmallows contain pork lard.
Yeah, they bizarrely get slimy in milk. It’s weird and gross.
Pork collagen.
I eat pork, so i see no problem with this. I guess this is why people who keep kosher need to check for a kosher certification.
I stand corrected.
Actually if is not from pork lard-it’s the gelatin used in the marshmallows.
From the general mills website:
Does Lucky Charms use pork gelatin?
Good question - we’re glad you asked. The gelatin in our marshmallow marbits pieces is made from pork collagen. Collagen as an additive is tasteless and clear, and is used in many types of food. Big G cereals that contain marbits include Lucky Charms, Chocolate Lucky Charms, Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frankenberry.
Booze acts like an emotional magnifier for me. If I’m feeling good and having a fun time with people, I get very animated and silly. If I’m feeling good and having a chill time with people or alone, I get very relaxed and mellow. If I’m at all down, melancholy, introspective (which is most of the time,) I get much much more so.
I’ve had three jobs: The first for 10 years, the second for 3, and the third (and final) for 36). Average = 16.3333333333333333
As I’ve aged I’ve found that drinking merely makes me sleepy.
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To be fair, Bojangles’ biscuits do have pork lard, which is one reason why they’re so fucking good.
I’m still waiting for the day that Oreos put the lard back.
I didn’t answer the jobs one because I’m not quite sure how to average the time I’ve spent in jobs. When I was a waitress, it was generally between 1 and 2 years; when I went to office work, that jumped to 2 - 3 years. I stayed home with kids for 18 years, but during that time I held a few part time jobs, usually on a temporary basis. Then I went back to work full-time, and I stayed in that job for 13 years, until i retired.
As for the kind of drunk I am, on the vanishingly rare occasion I actually get drunk, I’m happy, then abruptly very sleepy, at which time I’ll become cranky if someone tries to keep me up.
I’m a sleepy drunk, and antisocial. I just want to sit in a corner by myself and go to sleep. I don’t drink much at parties, and it’s not because I’m worried about losing control or driving home, it’s because it’s a great way to ruin the party for me.
Always happy to be the designated driver.
Averaging my job years would give a weird answer. For the first 20 or so years, I would get bored after 2 years and move on. I stayed for 4 years each in the next 2 jobs. Then I got the final job and stayed there for 23 years.
I was at lunch with some friends the other day and we talked about how our bucket lists had changed in the covid era. I said the main two things I still want to do is see the Northern Lights and the real night sky again. I saw it only once when I was 19. In the middle of Texas, middle of nowhere with the Milky Way stretching from horizon to horizon. I want to go to a certified dark area and see that again. One of my friends said she has never seen the Milky Way. That got us talking about how so many people these days probably don’t even know what the real night sky is supposed to look like. I find that very sad.
As I told a friend once, when I’m drunk, I’m me only more so. Voted happy drunk.
I once offered to be designated driver when a group of friends wanted to see a band at a bar in Pittsburgh. Worried about a sellout, we arrived hours early. At the door someone mentioned I was designated driver. The bouncer told me my drinks were free and he stamped my hand.
As we settled in, I ordered a double scotch on the rocks. The bartender gave me a weird look and told me he couldn’t serve me, I was designated driver. I pointed out that we wouldn’t be leaving for 3-4 hours, so a drink now was ok. He still refused. That was my last time being “official” designated driver.
I drink occasionally; but I’ve only been drunk a couple of times in my life, by accident. I didn’t myself notice an emotional affect, though people with me might have; but I had trouble standing up and walking, and found that unpleasant. So I decided not to do it again.
The amount I do occasionally drink – one or two drinks, usually – relaxes me a bit, and might make me a bit more cheerful and/or gregarious if I’m feeling that way already; but it’s also likely to make me sleepy, especially if I’m already tired.
I have seen a proper night sky, or at least close to it; but mostly as a small child or very occasionally in my 20’s, which was quite a while ago. Where I live now I can sorta see the Milky Way, but only the brightest portions of it, and not near the horizon – everything anywhere near the horizon and less bright than the Moon is washed out by ambient light, even though I’m in a rural area and several miles outside the nearest (quite small) town.