Paid jobs: 6 holiday jobs and temporary jobs, in and around my years of further education. I worked variously as a shop assistant, office clerk and waitress.
Between starting full time work and leaving to have children (no option in the early 1970s) 4, different employers, but all using my degree in economics. It took me the first two jobs, both lasting only six months to find my specialist niche.
Between returning to work and finishing work, 4 employers, the first two part time but my last employer, was a very big national and international company, where I had 4 jobs, one in each division, all of which I applied and competed for through a normal job application system.
Since 'choosing' voluntary redundancy into early retirement. Ten years with one major charity, including 6 months paid maternity cover. That work ended when funding for it did. I did similar work for a charity working in the same field, but gave up after a year because the charity did not support its volunteers properly.
Plus volunteering with several other charities associated with my leisure interests.