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.

I'm now retired, but during employment, I changed jobs every four years roughly, and then I worked for myself as self-employed until I was 50, but it was very highly paid: I earned £80k pa in 2002, which was the last year I filed accounts for my own business. Since then I have been closely involved with SMEs and pension fund investments so I don't actively earn money, but I improve business decision making and oil the machine. Part corporate finance and partly marketing/PR.

10 years with my current employer and 2 years in my current role.

I’ve been with my current company 14 years and in my current role for 11, 3rd job within the company. It suits the hours I need for my young children, is flexible and I enjoy the work so intend to stay a while longer. There’s not much progression where I am but at this stage of my life im not looking for that anyway.

I'm 41.

First job - 2 years
Second Job - 12 years
Current Job - 9 years

I was a teacher. Was in my first school 3 years; my second for 13 - got a promotion along the way. Was PT/HoD and then Faculty Head in my last school for a total of 18 years.

I'm always surprised by how short some stints are on CVs and LinkedIn.

I've had fairly long stretches but after 2 years in any job I always get bored, although it can then take me several years to find the right next move.

Worked for current employer 21 years. Enjoy it less and less each year.

In my near 37 years of work, I was unemployed (as in signed on) for 2 weeks, had 6 months maternity leave, then was technically not working for about 6 weeks when we first moved abroad and i found a job. In Belgium I can retire at 63 as I will have done the requisite 42 years! Obviously can't get the british part of my pension then though.

Current role 13 years. Lawyer

Joined junior and unqualified fresh out of law school. Several promotions and have qualified in that time too and whilst still in the same team I have had various roles.

I do worry sometimes that I should have moved employers more and it might look bad that I "settled" too much or shows I'm not up for new challenges (even though I've done different roles within the same employer so I know I'm adaptable)

12 years at Aviva from age 23 to 35.
Then retrained in law.
Been at my current firm since 2013. Handed my resignation last week to move to a new firm.

35 years in the same organisation. 1st job there 4.5 years, next job 20 years, moved dept and was promoted there within 18 months

Self-employment is the only route after creative/agency/consultancy work. My project-based work only lasted 4 months at a time, but I worked for the same people in different companies for three or four year cycles.

13 years but left recently because the company was about to go under. It was a stable and easy job for a long time and I was a single mum so stayed put but it got quite mundane. In a new job, loving the new challenge.

I'm 40, same job 22 years this year. In hospitality, want to start something else in a new industry but feel trapped for various reasons. I'll probably always regret not fulfilling my potential career wise.

21 years. 19 on the same ward. Love it!

21 years in the same company, slowly worked my way up to a decent position.

9 years but the company then went into liquidation. I've been with my current company for 5 years and have no plans to change jobs. I enjoy being 'part of the furniture!'

I'm in the 20th year of my job

Mid 40s, been with my employer (civil service dept) for over 20 years but at different sites and in different depts.

35 years!

Although I have had various roles my contract is unbroken from being a newly qualified teacher.

28 years so far

23 years with my current company. Surrounded, at 56, by 20 somethings. So miserable, disillusioned and terrified to look for another job even though I have good skills and experience. You're still young and have time to find a job that suits you.

4 years. I was hounded out by misogynists after I had a baby.

Typically I lasted between 4 months and 2 years.

Late diagnosed autism and adhd.

21 years in the same post, 25 years same organisation, NHS though and it's not uncommon for people to stay in the same post for decades!

17 years at my current place! I have been promoted in that time though. I have never not enjoyed working there, if that was to change I would definitely leave.