It depends how you want to count them. Does self-employed (artist), self-employed (IT consulant) & self-employed (tree surgeon) count ad one or three? Especially since all of those overlapped to some extent. And do promotions count?

However, looking at long-term, full-time roles only, then about 5 - most of which involved at least one internal promotion. Probably closer to 15 if you include all the odds and ends. I’m in my 50s and will probably be staying put now until I retire.

My brothers - quite a bit older than me - had one job (including promotions) in one case and two in the other.

Several dozen, in four different fields. I’ve been a teacher, a programmer, a childcare worker, and a waitress.

I’m considering becoming an electrician next.

Just looking at employers in my professional career. Two. One for 15 years then the current for 3.

Looking at my direct and diagonal leaders, they seem to average 3-5 years a role, and I consider staying with my prior employer for so long a mistake. I made career progression and promotions there, but it still slowed me down vs changing employers.

11 - 5 were summer/college jobs when I was a kid, and I’ve had a couple of promotions, so I’ve only had 4 employers/6 jobs in the last 18 years since my first “real” job. I’ve stayed at most of my employers way longer than a lot of people my age (39), though, so I think it would be reasonable to have had more. It might’ve been better for my salary to have more. I just really, really hate job hunting and I’ve been fortunate to mostly enjoy what I do.

For younger people, I don’t see job hopping as being super problematic, though I know a lot of people in charge of hiring do. If you’ve hit 30 and haven’t managed at least a couple years at one place, that’s probably not a good sign, but people should try different stuff (and get more money). We spend too much time at work to be miserable.

12, but it’s complicated. I was a freelancer for a long time, count that as one job, but I had dozens of customers. I quit one place and went back, and 2 employers have been acquired while I worked there, count all those as one each. Not counting summer or part times while in school. This is all over the span of 44 years, so I’m a little quicker than your 4 years on average. The shortest one was a little less than a year; it was a mistake to take the job in the first place. IMO, switching jobs is the biggest, maybe the only, leverage a worker has vs an employer. If you don’t have a credible alternative to your job, they know that, and know they can victimize you.

Like if you count jobs I did in high school or university or before I got into my career job, several, but in my actual career… several. I just move around the organization sometimes for a variety of reasons. I like the department I’m in now though so will probably stay here as I really like my patients.

i think I’m on 8? early 30s

I was a greens-keeper after high school for about 8 summers. Then I got a decent software development job that I still have more than 11 years later.

I’ve had 14.

10 of them were from when I was a kid through college, and then 4 in my professional career. I’m entering my 40s and have been at my current job for 8+ years now.

In 25 years of working I’ve had 13 jobs for 4 companies. Seems like a lot, but most of the changes were just moving into related jobs paying incrementally better money, with the support of my manager.

Including my employer being bought out by another company? Ten since 1990. Shortest stint was under a year. Bern with my current employer 11 years now.

I started out doing software development. I’m now a devops engineer.

10 I think. 11 if a different job in the same company counts.

But in the beginning there was a lot of hit&miss before I actually ended up with what I consider a “proper job”, which skewes the total in a positive direction. A proper career started in 2008 for me, and while I have changed employer a few times, I’m mostly doing the same thing - IT in industries and places people normally don’t associate with IT. I’ve held four positions like this, two of them in the same company. I’m jumping ship this summer to do pretty much exactly the same but for a different employer and more money.

Almost 40 years old, had 5 professional jobs over 19 years and a bunch of student jobs and odd jobs during a year of work & travel post graduation that I wouldn’t count.

I’ve had 6, which I consider low for my age. A large number of jobs would be around one a year in working age.

Right now I’m at 8 different jobs in 5 different companies. I switched jobs inside one (totally different job profiles). 4 of those jobs were during school and university time.