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...
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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