What Is Your Longest Term Of Employment To Date.

[_Virginia_]

3.5 years....I get bored easily.

 

[malthir]

14 years

 

[qrayze]

lol, SAHM: 3yrs. regular job: 2.5yrs

 

[Kaos_Star]

7 & 1/2 yrs with Walmart....oh the wasted time...
I now call that place Hellmart....

 

[Ravenwind]

One week... I was a traveling saleswoman in a really horrible area. Next job lasted only one day (panic attack from realizing I can't deal with "the public" in a retail setting).

Been working for myself ever since.

 

[Earl]

39 years.

 

[ElizaW]

Over 20 yrs as a business owner.

 

[PhilGarlic]

just

Just over thirty years, then retired, a great 30 years but so nice to relax now.

 

[Tiffany_Leggs]

Been working for the preacher since I was 19...so about six years or so.

 

[silverwhisper]

5 years or so, if memory serves.

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[Apryl]

14 years at my first job and 11 years at my second job ...not job hunting for a while going to try that house wife thing

 

[steelrfn]

20 years and counting

 

[SamScribble]

I’ve been self employed for 16 years now.

Before that, my record with one organisation was seven years – but in three stints. Twice I got head hunted to go elsewhere, and twice ‘elsewhere’ got bought out but my original employer. So twice I ended up back where I started – although, on both occasions, with a much better salary.

On my last stint at The Old Firm, I took over the office of a chap who had been employed for a one-month project and had stayed for 40 years.

 

[CoyoteTales]

Seems like only yesterday....

Fresh out of college, I picked between a contract job with an avenue into doing something I wanted to do or a living, and a job that was permanent and would keep the bills paid.

Going on eighteen years later... I keep wondering if I made the right choice. But my bills are all paid, and the company I was planning to work for went under a few years laster.

-CT.

 

[culloden]

With one employer? 9 years. Self-employed full time? 15 years. Self-employed at least part time, 32 years. I usually have two jobs at any given moment. Nice to be able to work from home.

 

[bailadora]

Work for pay? 5 years.

Self employed as Chief Everything Officer at home? 11 years. I've had my highest highs and my lowest lows at this occupation.

 

[bailadora]

On my last stint at The Old Firm, I took over the office of a chap who had been employed for a one-month project and had stayed for 40 years.

*grins*

Sounds a bit like my husband. He signed on for a three week contract and says it ended up being a 14 year sentence.

 

[Que]

10 year or so...mostly because the head of HR and I got along and he/she didn't have the heart to tell me that gross revenue had been exceeding expenses for quite some time and I was redundant.

I was self employed of course.


There is a razor thin profit margins line between being self employed and unemployed and it's damned hard to tell when you've well and truly crossed that line. Got lucky went out of business in the real estate sector when people were quite sure my analytical prowess was suspect because obviously these houses are worth it because look how high the prices are.

Stumbled into the production end of the commodities market as in the actual commodity itself and voila...everyone needs a hedge against the new utopia on the horizon.

 

[LikeableMe]

Wow, very rare to see people in jobs so long these days! I've been with my current employer 2 years and two weeks. Going to start looking elsewhere though, if promotion or pay rise doesn't come along soon! I'm constantly being labelled the top sales person, so would like a little more than minimum wage! This is my first paid job, I've done a variety of voluntary before this.

I've also been running a not for profit support organisation for about four years!

 

[TrueFox]

I worked at the same place for 2 years. I only left it for graduate school. Now, after realizing that I hated my graduate program and leaving, I'm a temp. So much for stability...

 

[Denae]

Longest 14 years. Current 10.3 and counting.

 

[RNJAG]

Well...I am a journeyman mechanic, worked in the trade for almost 20 yrs. Longest individual employer in that trade was 7yrs. I was also volunteer fire fighter for 13 years attended 150-200 calls per year. Now I've been doing outside sales for 12 plus yrs. Interestingly the longest term employer of 8yrs I have been suing for the last 5+ yrs. Now another interesting points I have is.... That of all the jobs I've had; the one that I had absolutely no education or training in I made well into 6 figure income for most of the years in that profession. It kills me when see job ads requiring yrs of escalating experience, university degrees and so on to make less than 30-35k per year. A formal education isn't all it is cracked up to be afaik.

 

[rwymark]

It will be 10 years on May 1. Last job was 4 years. Not too bad for being 29