Longest Stint/Spell with one company ?
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
My longest spell was 5 years... Long gone are the days when people stayed at one place like my father did(43 years for him)
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
eslsys wrote:
Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer.
I thought the attrition value in IT was a hell of a lot lower than that. 7 years (Second job) still keep in touch the with company MD.
Two heads are better than one.
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June 1985 - Feb 2008 so nearly 23 years. First 10 sound Next 7 75/25 ok next 5 owned by Americans....not good.
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
3.5 years in one contract. If I thought I'd be in one place for 21 years...
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven nils illegitimus carborundum
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
The longest I've stayed at one place was only 10 years. 1985 to 1995. Though I've been employed for 3 years now, I've been at this place since 1997, so I've been at this place for 13 years. :)
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3.5 years in one contract. If I thought I'd be in one place for 21 years...
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven nils illegitimus carborundum
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Nope I left of my own accord. I couldn't risk NOT being made redundant and it wasn't looking good for me then a more local better paid job came up so I jumped. Sadly I didn't know that the people who owned and ran the company had about as much idea of how to run and respect an IT department as I do of simultaneously translating Serbo-Croat via Mandarin into Klingon while balancing a whale on my head.
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
I got my 20 year service award in August 2009, and as part of this, i have been in the same oilfield (Forties, North Sea) for 18 years........ I am 37 now, and wonder when i will say no more offshore, every few years i start to get itchy feet, but i keep getting assigned to a different project and/or platform every few years, which means i get a change of scenery, usually each change comes with promotion and/or more responsibility (and money), so mustn't grumble. The only thing is that with offshore working, you are only working for 6 months of the year, the rest is time off, so to give all that leave up would be quite a change.
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Nope I left of my own accord. I couldn't risk NOT being made redundant and it wasn't looking good for me then a more local better paid job came up so I jumped. Sadly I didn't know that the people who owned and ran the company had about as much idea of how to run and respect an IT department as I do of simultaneously translating Serbo-Croat via Mandarin into Klingon while balancing a whale on my head.
Baconbutty wrote:
Sadly I didn't know that the people who owned and ran the company had about as much idea of how to run and respect an IT department as I do of simultaneously translating Serbo-Croat via Mandarin into Klingon while balancing a whale on my head.
Isn't that the same where ever you go? :)
Two heads are better than one.
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
15 years first job (not initially IT) 13 years second job I do not expect to make five here and at my age that is very scary.
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21 years is like 3 life sentences!
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven nils illegitimus carborundum
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21 years is like 3 life sentences!
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven nils illegitimus carborundum
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15 years first job (not initially IT) 13 years second job I do not expect to make five here and at my age that is very scary.
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Baconbutty wrote:
Sadly I didn't know that the people who owned and ran the company had about as much idea of how to run and respect an IT department as I do of simultaneously translating Serbo-Croat via Mandarin into Klingon while balancing a whale on my head.
Isn't that the same where ever you go? :)
Two heads are better than one.
In my experience no. Some management are pains in the rs. This lot were just rs-holes. Big difference to me. PITA - you just get on with it and mutter. R-H were just utter fkng idiots with no clue at all. They thought the higher they jumped up and down and threatened staff ther quicker it would be done - tossers.
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Because old people are discarded and are thought of as dinosaurs. Younger people of course are just so wonderful and have so much more experience than the people who have been around a long time, who have seen it all happen several times and aren't swayed by yet another Next Big Thing. Oh and younger people are cheaper to hire.
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
25 Months! Doh! :omg:
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Because old people are discarded and are thought of as dinosaurs. Younger people of course are just so wonderful and have so much more experience than the people who have been around a long time, who have seen it all happen several times and aren't swayed by yet another Next Big Thing. Oh and younger people are cheaper to hire.
Baconbutty wrote:
Because old people are discarded and are thought of as dinosaurs.
Depends on you good you are and how well you keep your skill sets upto date. I'm in a positon where I'm working with WPF/Silverlight/.net 4/Visual Studio if you look around now, probably not many jobs, look again in 3 year and the picture will be different also I'll have the edge on any kiddie boy with my CV.
Two heads are better than one.
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25 Months! Doh! :omg:
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Rob Coldecott has posted here [^] about finishing up after 21 years with the same employer. Anyone top that ? (My longest spell with one company was 6 years)
More than 20 years with the wife. :-D
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Current position might last to 26 months though (in month 25 atm)