How long in one place?
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
Two 7+ years and the rest have been 1 or two years. I think if you break through two years, you will often stay for the long run.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
8 months. (Disclaimer: This is my first "real" job. I graduated from college last May.) I think my Dad (Mike, for those in The Lounge that know him) has been at the same place for close to 30 years (I think it might be 28). Roughly the first half of that was in a mechanical engineering capacity and not a software capacity. I don't remember the exact year he started as it was several years before I was born... :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Two 7+ years and the rest have been 1 or two years. I think if you break through two years, you will often stay for the long run.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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I think if you break through two years, you will often stay for the long run.
You are right; when I look back I have done a 7+, a 6+, a 5+ and a 3+ (only cut short because of union pressure to stop using contractors). All others have been less than 2 years.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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You missed out the word blow there.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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You missed out the word blow there.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
5 years, at my first employer. Averages out at 2.4 years per employer. Always enjoy the question "why did you have that many jobs" during an interview; as if a developer would work 40 years for the same employer :-D
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
longest I have had is 5 years, but the current one is 3 1/2 years at the moment.
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
Forogar wrote:
I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
Eh, define "one job". The longest time I spent without giving a resignation note was 7 years, but during that time the company was sold three times and I moved twice between different offices, so I am not sure you could call it the same job.
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You've reminded me of a billboard that we recently had in our fair city. Said billboard.[^]
Good ol' Chicago, always classing up the place. :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
17 years under various guises - started as a government department, which was then privatised and bought out/merged twice more before I left.
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Good ol' Chicago, always classing up the place. :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
18 years this July.
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Looking back at my CV I see that the longest I have ever worked at one company was 7 years and 2 months. Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now. I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
I have been at my current job for 22 years, 4 months, and 13 days. When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
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5 years, at my first employer. Averages out at 2.4 years per employer. Always enjoy the question "why did you have that many jobs" during an interview; as if a developer would work 40 years for the same employer :-D
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
I was at an interview at a medical services tracking company and had got on like a house on fire with my potential new manager and a few of the team members who were in on the interview. They just needed an extra two minutes for approval from a director before offering me the job. He walked in, glanced at my CV - with my impressive list of achievements at various companies - and asked why I couldn't keep a job for any length of time, said "we need dependable people here" and left without approving me. Everyone else in the room left apparently stunned, except the manager who walked me outside of the building, apologized to me and said that that director was originally from an insurance company and didn't understand IT people at all but had final say on everyone so they couldn't offer me the job even though I was by far the best of all the candidates. I thanked him and left ... and then heaved a huge sigh of relief! That had been close! I had been ready to take that job! Phew!
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Forogar wrote:
I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
Eh, define "one job". The longest time I spent without giving a resignation note was 7 years, but during that time the company was sold three times and I moved twice between different offices, so I am not sure you could call it the same job.
During my 6+ years at one particular company they underwent seven "re-organizations" - which involved a change of manager, title and/or office - but basically the same job otherwise. I even ended up reporting to myself on a short-lived organization chart! In the modern offices we had the walls and doors were all movable metal panels off either side of a fixed central corridor - four floors in the building, all the same. One office move my desk didn't move, they just moved the wall from behind me to in front of me - and didn't understand when I wanted to rotate said desk 180 degrees!
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I was at an interview at a medical services tracking company and had got on like a house on fire with my potential new manager and a few of the team members who were in on the interview. They just needed an extra two minutes for approval from a director before offering me the job. He walked in, glanced at my CV - with my impressive list of achievements at various companies - and asked why I couldn't keep a job for any length of time, said "we need dependable people here" and left without approving me. Everyone else in the room left apparently stunned, except the manager who walked me outside of the building, apologized to me and said that that director was originally from an insurance company and didn't understand IT people at all but had final say on everyone so they couldn't offer me the job even though I was by far the best of all the candidates. I thanked him and left ... and then heaved a huge sigh of relief! That had been close! I had been ready to take that job! Phew!
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
Forogar wrote:
He walked in, glanced at my CV - with my impressive list of achievements at various companies - and asked why I couldn't keep a job for any length of time, said "we need dependable people here" and left without approving me.
Whehe, very recognizable; I usually start laughing at that point, it's hard to keep a straight face at that point.
Forogar wrote:
I had been ready to take that job! Phew!
That's often forgotten by the employer; the interview goes both ways, and if it doesn't feel "right", then no deal.
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