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Longest Stint/Spell with one company ?

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  • D DaveAuld

    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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    which means i get a change of scenery

    I presume this is a pun??

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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)

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      Dr Walt Fair PE
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      I worked for my first real company for 16 years, then spent 9 years as a consultant. I later went to work for one of my best clients and was there for 3 years as a consultant and 9 years as an employee. It was a French company and I enjoyed it immensely. Now I've been back consulting for about a year and a half.

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        which means i get a change of scenery

        I presume this is a pun??

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        DaveAuld
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        :) p.s. i see you are a fellow scottish inhabitant, where are you located? I'm in sunny Aberdeen (although it has just pi$hed down for last 5 minutes!).

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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)

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          bVagadishnu
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          I was laid off 6 days shy of 30 years (just before Christmas) Bean counters realized at 30 years I was entitled to free stock.

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            I was laid off 6 days shy of 30 years (just before Christmas) Bean counters realized at 30 years I was entitled to free stock.

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            eslsys
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            Can they get away with that where you live/work ? Really disgraceful - thanks for all your years of committment and have a happy xMas !!!

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              Can they get away with that where you live/work ? Really disgraceful - thanks for all your years of committment and have a happy xMas !!!

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              Dan Neely
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              Unless local laws give 100% of all lifetime company perks/benefits/etc the moment you start there's always a threshold were jerk bean counters can sack people to avoid giving them access to the next tier. :rolleyes:

              3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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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)

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                Joe Woodbury
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                When I owned my own business, though often didn't pay myself: 5 years, 4 months My current job: 3 years, 7 months Most other jobs are all around 2 years 6 months. Which is about the the time it takes the companies I work for to go bankrupt or lose so much money they have massive layoffs. Interestingly, that was about the schedule of my own company above with our primary product--it stayed around longer due to me using it for contracting.

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                  :) p.s. i see you are a fellow scottish inhabitant, where are you located? I'm in sunny Aberdeen (although it has just pi$hed down for last 5 minutes!).

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                  I'm in Applecross - on the west coast. Went to Uni in Aberdeen may moons ago.

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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)

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                    Brady Kelly
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                    No, but in a contempory vein I consider nearly nine years very long, which time I spent serving in the Air Force and gained the trade of radio technicion back in the day.

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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)

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                      Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer
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                      My father joined a company straight from school, then retired from it a few years ago... So that would be 40 odd years. Even national service was done while still technically employed. But those days are long gone. I felt a bit of a fossil being with my last lot form 14 years - and that was technically two lumps of 7. Iain.

                      I have now moved to Sweden for pillage and to steal their women - fair's fair, after all...

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