pinball

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You could say that I bounced around my companies like a pinball, and now that I'm job-hunting again, I've got to put together a compelling story that will convince my next employer to hire me in a managerial or senior-individual-contributor role, although I don't have deep experience in any one function.

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  1. noun A game played on a device in which the player operates a plunger to shoot a ball down or along a slanted surface having obstacles and targets, often equipped with flippers to keep the ball in play.

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  • I'm using it not to suggest sponsorship or affiliation by The Who, but rather to illustrate the term pinball referenced above, in a way that will have "Pinball Wizard" running through your brain for the rest of the day.
  • With banks paying meager interest rates and the stock market bouncing around like a pinball, you are right to look for other places to invest your money. —  LinuxChix aggregator
  • Instead of teenage kids at the soda shop where the pinball is located at, it is a group of today's hip-hop youth culture. —  PegasusNews.com stories
  • After weeks of being bounced around "like a pinball," he said, he finally reached a vice president's secretary, who referred him to another official, who referred him to another official. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • Am looking forward to the ultimate WarioWare game. hey they did motion sensing with the GBC or GB remember Kirby pinball was a tilt game ... doesn't that stand for motion sensing? hey they did motion sensing with the GBC or GB remember Kirby pinball was a tilt game ... doesn't that stand for motion sensing? —  Cubed3.com News
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