What’s the longest you’ve ever stayed in a job?

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As the other thread was about shortest time and I’ve had a few jobs where I lasted less than a month....let’s look at the longest you’ve ever stayed somewhere!

Mine is 4 years in one organisation but 2 different roles in that company in 2 different locations.

Then 18 months somewhere else.

I’ve had a couple of long term contracting roles that I quite like that lasted a year. And a couple of other perm jobs for around 12 months.

I’m not great at sticking around at jobs I don’t really like!

15 years

11 years. Would have stayed longer but they made me redundant last year! Glad they did though as I'm much happier in my new job and earning more too.

Nearly 7 years and would have been longer but the recession hit, the company got taken over the foreign parent company and started to turn the thumbscrews, so I decided to leave the country. Since then I've only managed 2-3 years at each job due to redundancies. My current job I really hoped was to be my forever job but have been made redundant again

DH changes jobs ever couple of years but he gets bored easily. I'd happily stay one place forever and ever if I was happy there. Stupid recession.

I get itchy feet after 12 months in a job let alone 10! I can understand staying with an organisation for a long time though and doing different roles.

I am 60. If I had left every job after 12 months my CV would be several pages long and I would appear to be unemployable on paper.

34 years, three months so far.

26 years before taking redundancy. Many roles over that time, longest lasted about 5 years.

LoniceraJaponica - but you don’t put down every job over a 40 year career, more like the past 10 years.

And 12 month contracts are absolutely fine. If you put that next to a shorter term job, employers won’t bat an eyelid.

I also think that staying too long in a job puts recruiters off too.

30 years. Got a good pension and retired aged 51. Now have a part time job with little responsibility and no stress.

I've been in my current job eight years & that's my longest. I tend to do about five years in a job then move on, but I love my current one so I've no intention of leaving.

5 years with my last job.

Been with my current organisation almost three years but have gone from part-time, to full-time, to management in that time.

Ten years, and when I left I was treated with disgust for having no loyalty or sticking power. My mind is boggled at people being allowed to move jobs within a company after a year or eighteen months. When I did that ten year stint you weren't allowed to apply for another internal role until you had been in your current one for at least two years, and even then you'd be unlikely to get permission to apply. People often put in fifteen years before being allowed to apply for a promotion.

treaclesoda - what kind of company was that? Seems pretty rare. I don’t know anybody who has loyalty to a company. You might stay somewhere for years because of the pension or easy commute, not because you are loyal.

The Civil Service encourages moving around every couple of years in my experience!

21 years in current job and no promotion prospects!

Almost 7 years in same place and have had 4 different roles in that time. Staying too long in one job is boring for me and limiting as well, I have wide range of experience now from roles I have held with in the NHs

I know now that it's very unusual but it was my first 'proper' job and we were told it was normal. I suspect everyone believed it too, because most of the staff had never worked anywhere else. They could treat us as badly as they liked and we were told to be grateful for it because we had it easy. Like Stockholm syndrome! It wasn't until I worked elsewhere that I realised just how backwards it all was. I'd imagine they've changed now, that's ten years ago.

About 10 years and counting.

25 years in one school.

Over the years I had worked for 6 head teachers but the last one was an absolute nightmare. She pissed off all the good teachers who left, gave ridiculous advice on how to "improve" lessons during observations but was totally incompetent as a teacher herself. She just destroyed the loveliest most nurturing school. I was heartbroken to go but just couldn't be there any more.

Been in my job 4 years which isn't that long but I'm only 26 and I don't plan on leaving in the foreseeable future unless the company goes down the pan after Brexit

Many years ago, a young SAHM, I was asked to help out some friends of my mother's part time for a few weeks before Christmas, their busiest time, with typing and general admin while an employee was off with a broken leg. It was just a few hours a day and my mum offered childcare so I said I would. They liked me so much they asked me if I’d like a permanent job after Christmas. I hadn’t been really looking to get properly back into the workplace for another year or so when my youngest was due to start reception but they were lovely to work for, it was interesting work, good money and the chances of finding similar in the area I lived when I did start looking for work were slim to none so I agreed.

Again with help from my mum with childcare and nursery, I was full time within 6 months, went on to become the office manager and was there until I emigrated 11 years later.

Been in my current job another 11 years. With luck I’ll be here until I retire. Bloody lucky both times, very different companies with very different set ups and purposes but equally fulfilling and interesting, great working conditions, flexible hours, above average pay and lovely coworkers and bosses too.

12 years in the same company, 5 years in the same role within that company

I must admit that I have been headhunted for the last two jobs I had. I'm sure my interview technique is rubbish because I have only had two job interviews since 1981.

22 years and counting!

13 years with current company. Job title remains the same though the work content has varied a bit. 11 years with the company before that.

17 years. Have started looking for another job and wished I hadn't been there so long as recruiters seem very surprised at that length of time.