What's the longest you've stayed in a job?

[Blackcat555]

I'm in my mid 30s, and apart from a 5-year job prior to and during uni, I've never stayed in a job for more than 2.5 years, average is 18 months. I have mostly moved for valid reasons, which were relocation, fixed term role, left to do my PGCE, left on promotion/higher wage etc.

Once or twice I've left as I was being bullied at the organisation and wasn't possible to move teams/organisation was very cliquey and I didn't fit in.

I'm at a point now where I just want to get established in something and stay in for at least a few years and work my way up.

18 years. 5 years off retirement.

I'll have been with my current employer for 18 years in a few weeks, but I've had 5 different jobs in that time.

I won't be there much longer though, I'm 69 and have been working for over 50 years with only a couple of very brief gaps!

2 years, 2 years, 13 years. I’m late 30s. All in same industry.

Three years. I've had six professional jobs. It's too many but I haven't found my niche

15 years in my current company but I've had 5 jobs since I've been here. Some promotions, some side moves. Means I've never had chance to get bored. I've been doing my current role for a few years now and have at least another 3 years left in it before I would start to think about moving. The industry I'm in is undergoing massive structural change at the moment so there is a chance I could take voluntary redundancy around that time, or take a new opportunity in the new organisation. It would take alot to make me leave, I have lots of flexibility, great benefits including leave and pension. They are currently paying for me to do an MBA too

Absolutely depends what industry.

I work in tech, so a good proportion of people move companies every ~2 years or so, to higher wages and/or better job titles.

Some types of jobs working your way up in one place works. In many, these days, it's promotion by changing jobs. Neither is better or worse, just different ways of approaching it.

11 years at the same place but moved department a couple of times. 5 years in one department was my longest.

First teaching job one year, then twenty two, now in a new teaching job less than two and highly likely to leave in the summer. I’m mid 40s

I'm the same as you OP, I think the longest was maybe 2 years before I move.

25

6 years. Mid 30s.

31 years in one role , 33 for the same employer . Retired on NYE from that , and about to start in a related role at the end of this month.

6 years. I’m 30 and have had 5 jobs since I was 16 but 3 of those were seasonal/“Saturday” jobs.

I’ve been in my current job 2.5 years and I am so much happier than I was in my last job. Plan to stay (progression up) for a good long while. Pension is good too so I’ll happily stay forever at this rate.

I worked in my previous role for 20 years (technically still work there but now in an ad-hoc capacity). I moved on 18 months ago after realising I needed growth. I like my new work place and could see myself her for a long time but I don't always align with the culture.

I'll be 25 years in this job in July, and 31 years in the profession.

22 years before being made redundant, current job 15 years.

Staying doesn’t always pay though. Sometimes to get pay rises or promotions you need to leave.

Would agree with this, although I've kept my eye on the market and negotiated a couple of significant payrises over the years on top of inflationary payrises.
My employer also keeps an eye on the market and has given a couple more significant payrises before I've asked in order to keep me (and others).

I’ve been in this role for 22 years, previous job was 6 years and prior to that I had about 7 or 8 part time/seasonal jobs at school and Uni.

Same organisation but different roles- 30 years next September!

Teacher. I've been at my school for the last 28 years.

My current one, coming up to 24 years. The problem is, I'm not qualified to do anything else, and they've got me by the short & curlies with the benefits they offer. Plus the pay is good. I want to leave but can't find any equivalent.

From leaving school

3 years
1 year
2 years
4 years
2 years
4 years

All in the same profession, accountancy, but at different levels (trainee, senior, manager, director), in different branches of accountancy (personal tax, corporate tax, accounts, audit, insolvency, probate, start ups, mergers etc) but different firms, a mix of practice and industry. In the firms where I spent 4 years, that wasn't all in the same department nor at the same level - some positions a year or two. The longest I worked doing the same work at the same level was about 18 months!

Now been self employed doing the same thing for the past 25 years!

Moving around so much (different firms, different departments, different seniority levels) really helped my career, gave me a very broad range of knowledge and experiences which were all building blocks for branching out on my own and setting up my own small business, which has basically been a "Jack of all trades" in terms of small business accountancy.

I'd have absolutely hated to have stayed in the same firm or stayed doing the same work for more than a few years.

My current one, 12 years and counting.

I started off part time when the DC were younger, moved to full-time and promoted . Now a manager.

24yrs as a civil servant. 15yrs in the same wider department. Similar roles. Suited me whilst kids were growing up, but once DD my youngest is off to uni next year i’ll branch out a bit, but I won’t leave the civil service, ever.