Longest time at a job you didn't like

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Currently, I am in a job with the CS that I don't like. When I first started it was much better but this last year has been difficult.. And no it's got nothing to do with office attendance (which a few people I have spoken to think is the issue). I would gladly attend the office 5 days a week as long as I was happy at work.
I would love to walk out, but for financial reasons I can't. I have been there for just over 2 years. I am applying for other jobs but not having much luck. I think the difficulty is that I am looking for another CS job, but in a different area. But I am hopeful I will find something.
This has got me thinking about other people in similar work situations. What is longest you've stayed in a job you didnt like? And what finally made you leave?

2.5 years. I didn’t mind it at first but it was a big step up, a huge challenge and it affected my mental health so much.

I dreamed of leaving for at least a year before I did but kept getting persuaded to stay. Some things happened which made me realize I was struggling mentally much more than I realized and I handed in my notice with nowhere to go.

I did apply for a job which I got but I would have gone anyway. I’m NHS so could have just done bank shifts. Best decision I ever made I think, my new job is very different but in a good way. I felt really trapped and it made me feel really incredibly low. That moment when I talked to DH and I decided just to leave was so liberating, like a weight was lifted.

11 years!! I was finally made redundant and put out of my misery!

Getting on for twenty years. I am very good at it, and when I got it was newly divorced, temping and really needing a means to support the kids. I was, and am extremely grateful. I have, over the years made the best of it. I retire in about eighteen months and can't wait.

But even though it isn't what I would have chosen there are many, many people doing shit jobs to make a living who are much worse off than me.

Same here, also CS.. been in the role 4 years now, hated it from day one. I loved my previous CS role . I'm trapped (financially).

Was in a CS role from 89 to 92. Accepted it as a challenge (which it certainly was) but turned out to be a poisoned chalice. Manager was archetypal office psychopath type. All about politics and him looking good; users could go an *uck themselves.

Fortunately, at the time, it was relatively straightforward to go to HR and, via a Career Interview, negotiate a level transfer within the agency which I did. Manager with vacancy knew me and that would be OK in her area.

More recently I left a role I loved, this time in the charitable sector, because the manager thought she ran a call centre and I'm a welfare rights person!!!