So, how many different organizations have you had?

[bingybear]

in 28 years since grad school.... only 9. 5 were really the same job... but had spin offs and acquisitions

[Helen]

Post college would be 4 companies.

- Small family owned software company for 1.5 years
- Large hospital in Boston for 2 years
- Large computer company for 6 years
- Federal government for 20 years

[Car-Guy]

After school. That would be 5 however, I tend to forget about the first 3 since they only lasted a total of about 18 mos. The final two lasted for ~40 years.

[RockyMtn]

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Originally Posted by Texconsin "Company #3" CEO gets on "Board #1" and approves a pay raise for the CEO of "Company #1." The "Company #1" CEO sits on "Board #2" and approves a pay raise for the CEO at "Company #2." That "Company #2" CEO sits on "Board #3" and guess who gets a raise at "Company #3?" Fact or fiction? Baseless innuendo or common practice?

I could see that potentially happen but none of the boards that I was ever on had CEO's that were on our board. The boards that I served on also were not public companies, just partnerships. Additionally, compensation for public companies are usually set by a compensation committee so 1 individual bod member would not necessarily be able to grant a CEO a raise although they could certainly vote for it.

[jjquantz]

OK, after college graduation

1) One oil company
A four year pause for grad school
2, 3, 4)Three different school districts
5) Fellowship with Federal Government
6) Contractor with Federal Gov't which was
7) bought by a second, somewhat larger company, which was, in turn,
8) bought by a mammoth company.
9) Small non-profit.

Looks like 9 to me because everyone had a different HR system to work with.

[Tallman4123]

1. Hospital - Radiation Therapy Tech - 2 yrs
2. Hospital - Radiation Therapy Tech - 6 yrs
3. Insurance Company - Life Insurance Sales & Management - 6 yrs
4. Health Maintenance Organization - Group Sales Management - 6 yrs
5. Health Maintenance Organization - Group Sales and Service Management - 7 yrs
6. Insurance Brokerage Firm - Insurance Consultant - 10 yrs (and counting...or should I say countdown?)

[eytonxav]

8 counting 2 that were involved in a merger of equals (ha)

[LOL!]

Two companies. In each company, I changed buildings once, so I had 4 different offices. Lived in ony 2 abodes in all that time.

[Bikerdude]

1. Advertising Agency pickup & delivery driver.
2. U.S. Air Force computer operations Base supply.
3. U.S. Postal service carrier.
4. Savings & Loan computer operations.
5. Banking IT service center computer operations.
6. Banking IT service center computer operations manager.
7. Banking IT service center communications specialist.
8. Banking IT service center communications manager.
9. Mega Corp communications analyst.
10. Mega Corp communications specialist.
11. Mega Corp communications Network Architect.
12. Mega Corp Project Manager.
13. Mega Corp survived numerous regime changes.
14. Retired. Paid my dues.

[David3]

One, by my math, for 32.5 years so far since graduating college.

Or, to count interesting events:

1) Hired by Division A of Company 1.
2) Company 1 taken private in LBO; some other divisions sold/spun off.
3) Division A plus 2 others goes public in IPO as Company 2 (with same name as Company 1).
4) Company 2 splits into three companies. Division A keeps Company 2 name.
5) Two years later Company 3 buys company 2 - we take the name of company 3.
6) Company 3 splits into two companies; our division is grouped with another division and is one of the spun out companies - so let's call it company 4.
7) Company 4 is bought by a large search engine company (5) in need of patents.
8) Company 5 sells our division to another company (6) in our industry.

So I am at Company 6 or so; in incarnation 8. But I am really part of the same business I joined in 1982.

Fun to explain at parties.

[marko]

Just one.
Walked in at entry level; 30 years later, walked out as EVP.
Changed responsibilities every 2.5 years either by chance or design.

[bingybear]

there are at least 2 different ways these are being answered, some seem to be doing it by company name change, others company or job title or job function..etc. I put 9 for different company names.. and not counting one company twice when I worked for it twice with one other company in between. I also did not include working for the same company at locations half way around the world in different roles.

not sure what the OP wanted

[Walt34]

After 2 year community college:

1. Heating and A/C repair tech for Sears (holdover from summer/part time job during school

2. Police officer 29 years, but several different jobs within that title. Patrol (everyone starts there) fraud investigations, then computer crime/forensics.

3. Armed security post-retirement. Good hours, 3.4 mile commute with one traffic light, laid-back boss I didn't see much. And actually decent pay, very rare for that position. When that went away I quit.

[Nodak]

After college 4 companies and the DoD.

[scrabbler1]

Just one here. The company changed its name once and moved its offices twice, the last time instrumental to my eventually ERing (worse commute). In addition to the 2 relocations, I changed divisions once and there were some reorgs which affected higher management levels. The company also changed from non-profit to for profit, resulting in the ESOP which helped me ER after I cashed out the stock which had grown 3000% (yes, that is thousand, not a typo) in 12 years.

[aja8888]

5 separate companies of which 2 were majority-owned by me.

[Goonie]

Only one. Graduated HS on a Friday night, and went to work for the local municipality the following Monday. Retired 32 years later with just over 37 years of service credit (cashed in comp-time, vacation days, sick days, and bought 5 years of service credit during a buy-out).

[Niuatoputapu]

Six after college.

1) CPA firm for one year
2) US Peace Corps to two years
1a) Back to the same CPA firm for 2 years
3) International Nonprofit for 14 years
4) Temporary assignment for 3 months (Kosovo crisis)
5) Temporary assignment for 13 months
6) Domestic US Nonprofit for 15 years by June 2015

[pb4uski]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jime444 Or, companies have you worked for?.........

Before graduating college:
1. Ran family business in high school (2 self-service car washes)
2. Summer job during college in our local Firestone store
3. Fall job at the Firestone store where I went to college
4. Part-time accountant job with a company near college
5. Occasional summer work in family business

After graduating college:
1. Medium sized local CPA firm (3 years - 2 different positions)
2. Fortune 500 telecommunications company (6 years -2 different positions/business units)
3. Mid-sized life insurer (12 years - 4 different positions in financial management)
4. Big 4 firm (13 years - 2 different consulting business units)

[Nodak]

I missed a couple in my first post.

Dayton Hudson Corp
Medtronic
Financial Information Systems
PanAm
Science Applications Inc
Raytheon
DoD
FELEC Services (part time consulting after retirement from DoD)