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...
17 years. Before that, 3-4 years at any place, some only a year. I can't believe I was there that long. I laughed when I started because they gave me a retirement date. I only stayed for the job security and high pay. They really didn't challenge me, I saved the good stuff for after work. They weren't interested in what could be done, only what they wanted done. But just as I was getting resigned to reaching the retirement date in three more years, they dissolved the department. At least the severance pay (a paycheck for every year there) gave me time to study and find another job. It was the first time in I don't know how long, that I had time to read some programming books cover to cover instead of just doing quick study in only the sections that were necessary.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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31 and a half years for me (and holding; now retired). Not counting extracurricular work I do on the side.
-- Harvey
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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...
Over 13 years ago, I was the first hourly employee hired in this startup. Through sweat equity and downsizing, I am now an equal partner. There were a lot of tough years, but it has been paying off in the last few years, and getting better every year.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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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...
Can anyone correlate years on a job with your stage of life? I followed this path: 2 years 4 years 1 year 5 years -- Got married 17 years -- marriage and raising a family 3 years -- Kids were going off to college 1 year 1 year 1.5 years When I needed stability, I stayed in a job (17 years). When I was making progress up the career ladder I stayed (early) Now that my responsibility to family has lessened, I get to switch jobs to see what I missed while working the 17 year stretch.
Modemmad99
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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 so far for me. It's been my first and only programming job too. Got hired 3 days out of school and still working for the same company.
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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...
A little less than 3 years is the most I've been in a company. The fight is always the same: salary. Maybe I expect too much of my experience or maybe I'm a poor negotiator on my way in :~
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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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...
A year and a half, I liked the job (and the pay) but it was getting too boring.
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for 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...
9.5 years, gone for 3 to a startup that eventually failed, then back for another 10.5 more, leaving 3.5 years ago for current startup. Funny thing is that they had on-again/off-again recognition programs for 5,10,15,20,... year milestones and they were always off-again when I hit mine so I never got a single one.
-Shon
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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...
3 Years at my current 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...
First real job: 7 years, 11 months and counting.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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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.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
Mine was a PDP-11 with 16K (bytes/8K words) core memory running corporate OS. Later upgraded to 1MB semiconductor memory. When they became obsolete, they let me take two of them home. I wrote my own operating system in machine code (not assembler, machine code), stored in the core memory. I used to have them until late 1997. I still have 8 or 9 of the H214 core memory boards.
-- Harvey
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Forogar wrote:
Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now.
The average length of a penis is supposed to be six inches. The Mrs is glad I ignored that fact.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
Mine was a PDP-11 with 16K (bytes/8K words) core memory running corporate OS. Later upgraded to 1MB semiconductor memory. When they became obsolete, they let me take two of them home. I wrote my own operating system in machine code (not assembler, machine code), stored in the core memory. I used to have them until late 1997. I still have 8 or 9 of the H214 core memory boards.
-- Harvey
One of my favorite classes in college (Wright State University, 1979-1984, go Raiders!) used a lab with two PDP-11/05's. They had core memory for the RT-11 bootstrap, which was 88 words of code. The core wasn't write-protected, so the bootstrap machine code was on a piece of paper taped to the front of the machine. Everyone had to fat-finger the bootstrap in at least once. One guy was notorious for having done it so often, he could input the bootstrap via the front-panel switches in under 60 seconds.
Software Zen:
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One of my favorite classes in college (Wright State University, 1979-1984, go Raiders!) used a lab with two PDP-11/05's. They had core memory for the RT-11 bootstrap, which was 88 words of code. The core wasn't write-protected, so the bootstrap machine code was on a piece of paper taped to the front of the machine. Everyone had to fat-finger the bootstrap in at least once. One guy was notorious for having done it so often, he could input the bootstrap via the front-panel switches in under 60 seconds.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
They had core memory for the RT-11 bootstrap, which was 88 words of code.
Yeah, my boot code was 2 16 bit words, and about half of the bits were the same in both words. Pain in the butt but I could do it on mine in about 5 seconds. I had a lot of fun with those machines. Sniff. I gave them up too soon.
-- Harvey