So how long?

[lynw]

is the longest you've worked for an employer?

Im sitting here reflecting on my penultimate day in Customs, Ive only really ever worked for them.

Secondment and career break aside, it works out 2.5 of the last 13 years have not been directly for Customs but I was still under their t&c a Customs officer.

Is this some kind of achievement or mark of insanity to stay with one employer for that length of time? Could you do it?

Bear in mind in the time Ive done computer audits, computer training, specialised VAT law, Landfill tax, excise, and customs warehousing to add to the variety. :D

[Anonymous]

Paid employment was Norwich Union Life Investments, i worked in their Finance Department. Was there for 2.5 years

Had the job at the Danish firm for 12 months, then. Ive been where i am now for just shy of 12 months. However this is going to be my career. Ive found something I enjoy, im good at, and the future here is definately bright and prosperous.

Im learning new things every day, and it is a challenge. 8) Oh, and the pay is good too! :lol:



However i was in the Air Cadets from as young as i could be and left aged 19. I did normal squardon nights (2 nights per week), I was in the Sqn band too (a further 2 nights a week) and i was also at the VGS every weekend from aged 16 to 19 (that was 9pm friday to 9pm sunday).

I only ever had 2 weekends off, for Parades when the band was performing.

So i guess you could class that as a "job" of sorts.

[keithd]

my 10 year anniversary for my current employer is on june 8th.

god i need a change.

[Dicky Ticker]

Contracted for the same company since 1976 after starting my own business in 1970 and still trading

[Stingo]

29 years. :shock:

[LH-SV650]

Worked for Homebase LTD for 6 1/2 years. In that time I worked as a cashier, shelf stacker, warehouse man, software tester, proof reader, website support and department manager.

I like to get around.

My current job is clocking up 2 1/2 years.

[TSM]

4 1/2 years and im only 23, hopfully not for much longer though.

[chazzyb]

im only 23, hopfully not for much longer though.

Play your cards right, you might make 24. :P

[Biker Biggles]

Same firm for 19 years.Very much enjoyed it for the first 17,but becoming a bit of an unhappy ship recently.

[Viney]

11 years fo PA consulting, 7 and a bit years for Xerox, albeit in 3 different comanpnies Thats it really, unless you count 5 years as a paperboy and that was for the same shop

[Razor]

Been working 20 years and only had 4 jobs, longest was 8 years.

[jenni]

i'm just coming up to my 4th anniversary, thats the longest for me, but i don't really see myself leaving,

[timwilky]

Just a tad over 21 years, so using the companies redundancy formula it gives me 42 weeks entitlement

[mysteryjimbo]

2.5 years. Shortest was 1 day :lol:

I can see myself in my current one for some time. Almost at 2 years now.

[Tara]

2.5 years from Jan 2000 til June 2002

[Vfr400]

32 years with the same company. I joined when i was 16.

chris

[northwind]

This is just another lynw attention seeking post dressed up as a debate :wink:

I've been with the bank since i left uni. Never had another permanent job, various short term ones though. I never planned to stay at the bank, I literally took the first job I was offered to stop falling further into debt after uni. Did basically a school-leaver job for a while but moved up until there was nowhere else to go without being a salesman, which I chose not to be. Got sick of the branch culture Then was recommended for a job in police liason/investigations, which was interesting and challenging but incredibly depressing, in many ways. So I gave up on that route and crabbed my way into a totally different area, where I now inexplicably run a helpdesk for some of our biggest customers that nobody even knows exists :)

I suppose the point here is that I've been in the same company, but really I've done 3 completely seperate jobs, each with different culture... And the last one, might as well have been a different company. So I suppose I'd say I'd spent nearly 6 years, and only 9 months, working for the Man.

[Grinch]

6 years at IBM... left.. and have now gone back.

[Iansv]

I'll be hitting 5 years this september in current job, that'll make it the longest... Pretty bad considering it was a 6th month thing while I found something I wanted :lol:

[stewboy]

Paid employment was Norwich Union Life Investments, i worked in their Finance Department. Was there for 2.5 years

Had the job at the Danish firm for 12 months, then. Ive been where i am now for just shy of 12 months. However this is going to be my career. Ive found something I enjoy, im good at, and the future here is definately bright and prosperous.

Im learning new things every day, and it is a challenge. 8) Oh, and the pay is good too! :lol:



However i was in the Air Cadets from as young as i could be and left aged 19. I did normal squardon nights (2 nights per week), I was in the Sqn band too (a further 2 nights a week) and i was also at the VGS every weekend from aged 16 to 19 (that was 9pm friday to 9pm sunday).

I only ever had 2 weekends off, for Parades when the band was performing.

So i guess you could class that as a "job" of sorts.




i was in the ATC ....woooo