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 currently. First and only school I've worked in. No plans to leave this school or the profession..... yet.....

8 years for the 1st company i worked for and now i'm up to 4 years in current job. I have no plan to leave ever, i work in civil service so can just move round teams on the site. Employee benefits are so good i'd steuggle to get work/life balance anywhere else

I used to do rescruitment in my previous job and people who had lots of 12 month or less jobs wouldn't get an interview. Just shows they will have no loyalty to company so why should i pay to train them up for them to just leave within a year

18 years in family business
16 years large international business
12 years self employed but now very part time, semi retired

Lazypuppy - why would anybody have loyalty to a company? They will happily get rid of you! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have three 12 month stints on my CV and have never had issue getting jobs! I state “fixed term contracts” next to two of them.

I’ve been in quite a few jobs less than 12 months and they are either longer than 10 years ago so not on my CV or I just leave them off. Never been an issue.

Five years in local government and I hated every minute of it: it was a total viper's nest and a horrible atmosphere. Moved to a different LA and it's totally different.

I know a couple of people who did the same job for 50 years.

The same job for 50 years!

The jobs we do probably won’t exist in 10/20/30 years. No such thing as a job for life. The Civil Service used to be a job for life. You could join as an admin assistant, maybe become an admin officer or executive officer. Then pootle around quite happily and have a nice pension.

The admin jobs have decreased due to technology and automation. “According to the Office for National Statistics , in 2010 there were 527,500 civil servants. By 2016 that number had fallen to 418,300.”

In 2000, there were 475,000 civil servants. In the 1970s around 700,000. The Civil Service will keep on reducing staff numbers, it’s certainly not a job for life.

Those are interesting statistics considering how the media like to portray the civil service as bloated and having far too many staff.

My current job, 14 years this year.

I started it in my 'gap year'. Never went back and worked my way up.

OK, role specific...14 years with one company, 8 years in one role (during the period I took two year long maternity leaves so career progression stalled).

The Civil Service used to be a job for life. You could join as an admin assistant, maybe become an admin officer or executive officer. Then pootle around quite happily and have a nice pension.

Yes I did that. In the 1970s lots of people went into the civil service straight from school (jobs that now require a degree).
The civil service were way ahead of other employers in those days in allowing women to return to work part time after maternity leave and then allowing flexible working. I worked full time for 20 years then part time when DC were little then when they started school I got a term time contract.
I did 33 years. Then took redundancy and got a nice little PT job doing something completely different.

I've never been able to stay employed for more than 18 months before getting bored.... However, I've been self-employed for 18 years this yer, and love it.

3 years. My fil has been in his job for 47 (!!!)

I’ll celebrate 32 years this summer but have done lots of different roles in this company.

DH has worked in the same business for 39 years this year! Longer than I've been alive! He started from school and now owns it.

Longest job I've ever had was 8 years.

32 years and counting. I write scientific software, most of it working from home, and I went part time when DD started school and resisted suggestions that I might want to go full time again.

The jobs we do probably won’t exist in 10/20/30 years.

It will be interesting to see how things pan out. DH joined a huge global company which he thought would be a 'job for life' - good career development etc. That company (ICI) no longer exists - no way would we have predicted that. Conversely, I joined a tiny startup in a new field (my job didn't exist when I was at school). The company has been through many mergers and acquisitions but I've managed to maintain continuous employment throughout and now we're a division of a big global company....

15 years this year

I did start working there when I was 16,but left aged 19 did a few other jobs including a stint abroad & returned aged 24 to just cover while I found a permanent job after returning back to the UK.

So if I'd not left I would have worked there for 23 years this year, now that's scary!

10 years in my current job. Plan to stay but it's really physical so I don't realistically know what I will do when I start getting older, if I get any health problems I'm fucked really! But I really love it and it's well paid so I won't leave unless I have to.

13 years.

Left a year ago. Stayed in the next job for 7 months and then moved again. I'm now so happy in what I honestly think is my dream job and I hope I'm here for 20 years.

I worked for the same company for 20 years, left when they offered redundancy.

Went back after 2 years for 7 years until they TUPE’d me out to another company. I remained doing the same job, in the same desk just a different employer.

I stated there for 16 months & am due to start back with the original company in a few weeks. It’ll be a slightly different job, but won’t be changing desks!

Have worked nowhere else since leaving college.

It’s local, flexible & a good payer. Can’t imagine working anywhere else tbh.

23 years with the same company I started out as a picker in the despatch department, then despatch coordinator, account handler, account manager, account director, customer services manager, currently client services director until April then I will be operations director, no more progression after that as I will get my pension in 2 years time - cant wait - before that it was about 10 years working in advertising various roles until I got made redundant and before that I was in retail for 16 years in various places.

26 years in one school, 31 years as a teacher so far.