What Is Your Longest Term Of Employment To Date.

[fgarvb1]

I just arrived home with my thirty five year award.

Damn.

I'm getting old.

Ha!

I am old!

 

[revchev]

Wow, congrats! I'm about to celebrate 10 years at my current company, which will be my longest continuous employment.

 

[swtrthnhoney]

Five years.
Worked at a company for five years. Left there for another company. Was not looking to leave.
Was asked to return to first company for a management position. Stayed another five years (really wasn't planning on leaving but life happened).
Found employment at yet another company and worked there for five years. Wasn't planning on leaving there but economic and life crisis intervened.
Got a better job - YEAH - not planning on leaving unless I move out of the city in the future.
(Not sure what's up with the five year thing.)
CONGRATS to you on 35 years of continuous employment. That's quite an accomplishment these days considering the average employment length is 7 years or so.

 

[fgarvb1]

Thanks!

The strange part is, this was only temporary until I could find a job doing what I wanted to.

Sometimes life screws everything up.

 

[willinggirl]

Almost 20 years here.... and it feels like it.

 

[CoupleFromOhio]

29 for me.

 

[Eilan]

If I hadn't taken seven years off to be a SAHM, I would have been with my employer for 12 years. I started my sixth year in August.

 

[Experiencedguy]

Newbies!! 38 years, self employed. When you have a really good year, it can exceed your wildest expectations. But, when you have a really bad year, it can be your worse nightmare in real life. I've done well, supported myself, my 3 kids, one exwife, and my (then) wife. Plus - my kids are going to get a really nice inheritance!! Being self employeed sure teachs you about saving.

 

[MsGoodBody]

.....

 

[toshiskitten]

I've been at my current job for a year and five months and I've been promoted twice.

 

[Lady_Fiona]

22yrs 6 months and a queens long service medal.

 

[SlickTony]

7 years. That probably sounds like a short hitch to you, but the way my luck has run, it's pretty long for me. I keep looking for a place I can retire from, and something happens to all the jobs...the program gets defunded or the department gets bundled up and sent to another territory.

I saw this trend forming back in the 80s, when I had just moved to another state and was interviewing with employment agencies. At that time, I had had four jobs between 1972 and 1983. Someone inquired, somewhat sniffily, "Why have there been so many positions?"

I ended up not using that agency. I figured if they could see me as a person with a variety of job experiences, they could probably get me something; but with that attitude, I figured if I was a ho they couldn't get me a trick during the shank of the evening on, well I guess it would be Plank Road if you were in Baton Rouge and Philips Highway in Jacksonville.

 

[TypicalDeviant]

5 years at a "job" (college), 2.5 in a "career" position. I'm in a new job now and I hope to stay here for some time.

 

[Leotard]

19 months.

But then again, I am 20

 

[hd8001]

I am working on my sixth year.

 

[bambikiller]

17 years ago I started my own business.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

I just arrived home with my thirty five year award.

Damn.

I'm getting old.

Ha!

I am old!

Holy crap, that's longer than I've been alive!

Yesterday marked 6 years with this company. It's my first real FT job, since the casual posi's I did while I was studying.

 

[HOG1954]

38 years last May

 

[DarkBee]

2x 2,5 years for the same company, with a gap of 3 years in between.

 

[softandcuddly]

I worked at a place for 10 years, until I went on maternity leave. They wouldn't let me take FMLA and said I'd be essentially let go.. so I never came back. Screw that.. I might have been there longer.

So glad to not have returned, that place was the worst.

I've been at my current job for 5.5 years so far... (some of that time overlapping with other job)

 

[LuvtoDream]

Fifteen years before I decided on a career change...now finishing college in my 40's.

 

[NeverWinterNite]

Five years when I was at my part time job and 10 years at my casual job.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

2 and a half years. My last job was 2 years. Acutally I worked both at once until I started getting more ot and more money from one. Now I only work the one job. With it being in a automotive plant (in michigan you either work for the big 3 a supplier or a mcdonalds) I count my blessings every day my badge beeps and the door opens.

Remy

 

[Tmkowal]

13 years. Coming up on 10 years with my current company.

 

[littlebabyclit]

Going into my 8th year at my current place of employment and this is the longest I've worked anywhere. And it's funny because out of all the workplaces I've been, I hate this one the most. Thanks, shitty economy.

This is a very cool thread idea...and congrats on 35 years, fgarvb1.