How long have you been at your current job?

Myself, I’ve been at my current job for 17 years, and I’m only in my late 30’s. Nice stress-free environment, several computers to play with, and I can largely set my own hours.

Many people, like my aunt, seem to switch job every couple years. Others want to stay on their jobs but get laid off, there doesn’t seem to be nearly as much job security with big companies any more.

10 years at this company, and 11.5 at the last one. I’m not much for moving around. :smiley: (I haven’t stayed in the same job within those companies for all those years.)

2 years at this company (I spent 6+ at my last job). But I also have a second job that I work part-time - been doing that for over 10 years. (I’m 34)

About 9 years. I’ll stay here until retirement, then take my pension and go into consulting.

6 years, just about exactly. Longest I’ve ever worked anyplace. I’m almost 49.

Including temping it’ll be 11 years early this Spring. I started as a temp, you see.

This is, by FAR, the longest I’ve ever been anywhere. Before that it was 3 1/2 years.

In July I’ll hit my 8th year, I’m 29. What I do is more of a trade than anything else and it takes a lot of time to get the hang of it, even though it’s an office job. You can’t really go to school for it unless you’re a real estate attorney, and then you wouldn’t work here. I work for a title insurance company and you wouldn’t belive how many people hit their 30th, 40th or even 50th anniversaries in the company newsletter.

Hmm, does retirement count as a job? I’ve been at that for 7 years. If you want to go back to actual working, I was at that company for 25 years. But, I did it in 2 stints (7.5 and 17.5 years), separated by 3 years at college. I did a variety of jobs at that company (the longest was almost 7 years). And once, I was sent to work for a year at a subsidiary that was jointly owned by my corporation and several others, but my corporation continued to pay my salary. (I’m 52.)

7 years. I’m really happy here and don’t see myself leaving anytime soon.

I was hired here 6/15/86, but worked at another job for 6 months in 90 before returning. So how do you caculate that?
In terms of seniority for benefits, retirement, and such, they count me as having started in 12/86, which gves me just over 21 years.
Uh, suffice it to say, I have this stuff pretty much down cold.

Since 6:30 this morning.
Oh, sorry. Since August 1987. Same school, different classes I started teaching English, then transitioned slowly into the Science department, before jumping ship into Social Studies where I have been since 1996.

9 years at this [DEL]company[/DEL] job. Laid off a couple years ago, brought back 4 months later, company bought by competitor less than a year after that, but essentially the same deal.

Spent 9 years in gas stations, got out of that business when my first child was born. Unreliable employees frequently required me working 7 days a week and that was (I felt) no way to raise a child. So I gave up the prestige and vast wealth of a convenience store owner and somehow ended up in tech.

I’m nearly 40, been working full time since 1985.

11 years

I have been at my current job at a community college since 2000.
For a time, I was also teaching at another campus, where I had been since 1992. I quit that one in 2004.
So…seven years and counting at this one.
Oh, I also have a second job, on-call, which I have been doing since 2004.

Well, let’s see. Three years as a waiter and bar tender in college, three years as a library hand and research assistant in law school, five years on active duty with the Army, eleven years as an associate and junior partner in a small law firm and twenty-five years on my own. I’ll start drawing social security this spring but I’m having too much fun to retire. With good health and a functioning brain I ought to be good for another ten years.

10 months at this hospital so far. I don’t think I’ll stay forever, since it’s a small place and there’s not much change on the horizon, in terms of opportunities to move up or make more money. But for now, it suits my needs, I’m building up experience, and I like my co-workers, so I can see myself sticking it out for a few years at least.

Several people I work with have been there for 20 years or more.

It’ll be a year here in a couple of weeks.

I change jobs more often than I should. My personal endurance record so far is about 3.5 years, and I probably average around 2 years. My wife’s job has taken us to a couple of different cities, so it hasn’t always been entirely my fault. But, yeah, I’m not a long-term kinda guy. On the upside, doing this has helped me get more experience and advance faster than I probably would have otherwise (I’m in IT).

7 years at current job, I’m 37.

Sigh…

22 years, 11 months, 26 days, 4 hours, 10 minutes. :frowning:

I’ve been in this job almost 11 years.

Before that I did a lot of contract jobs that lasted a year or two at the most.

I’m 41, BTW.