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<p>It sure hit my last job! I worked for a building products company that relied on housing starts… Now I work for a company that actually thrived in the recession and is still growing rapidly.</p>
<p>I’ve worked for my wife for 21 months now. Since I retired, that is. I retired 15 years to the day from starting with my last employer.</p>
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<p>How about a hot stock tip?</p>
<p>Only 2 years for me. Four years at my previous job before I was laid off, and 15 years at the one before that. Keeping my fingers crossed that my company will not relocate for at least another 10 years - I don’t want to be looking for another job when I’m in my 60’s!</p>
<p>5 years at the current job. 10 years for the job before that. Currently in my 5th full time job in the past 33 years.</p>
<p>I have been at my current job for 4 years. I moved to Michigan to be with my husband, and this required a job change. </p>
<p>I was with my previous company for 12 years.</p>
<p>I like the process of figuring out new businesses, how they work their cultures, so I think fairly frequent job changes have been perfect for me.</p>
<p>25 years. I was at my previous company for 2 years.</p>
<p>They are closing down the product line I’ve been working on. People were let go today with 20, 30+ years at the company.</p>
<p>I am probably good for a couple of more, but I’m not looking forward to starting over at a new company.</p>
<p>I have been at my new job for 6 months. The CEO of this company has hired me 5 times in the last 30 years, and this is a second time for me at this company. The CEO complains about me all the time, calling me a high maintenance employee. People always ask him why he would re-hire me so many times. My last job was the longest, 8 years. Most of other jobs I’ve had have been 1-3 years, but most of the time working for the same person.</p>
<p>20 years with the federal government for me – 5 years the first time, then 15 years when i went back to work. I just retired last week. </p>
<p>My husband has been with his employer for 44 years and probably won’t retire for at least another year!</p>
<p>I’ve been teaching in the same school system for 27 years.</p>
<p>Love that story Oldfort.</p>
<p>I’ve been where I am for the last 15 years.</p>
<p>I will be changing next year, though.</p>
<p>I’m excited about it.</p>
<p>I was at my first job for 15 years. Then we had a baby and moved to a new city. I’ve been at my second job in various capacities since the baby was in kindergarten. Now the baby is 26, getting married and working at the same company.</p>
<p>I’m definitely an outlier.</p>
<p>Last job: As a contract employee, for 5 months.
Prior job: For an abusive hostile boss and a weird company (not to mention living away from home during the week) for two years.
Before that: 8 months as a contract employee.
Before that: 5 years. I would have stayed, but they relocated to a place we didn’t want to go to.
Before that: 4 years.
Before that: 8 years. This was the same company as the one I worked for for 7 years (see below.)
Before that: 3 years.
Before that: 7 years.</p>
<p>I’m very good at getting jobs.</p>
<p>Keeping them – not so much.</p>
<p>It will be 33 years on January 7th</p>
<p>When I retired, I had been with the same company 30 years. We have had breakups, mergers and name changes but it was essentially the same company. For the past 20 years we have been in “downsizing” mode. After a lot of thought I took the severance offer and escaped with my pension last June.</p>
<p>I just had my 15-year anniversary at a large health insurance company. I’ve got 15 years of service over the past 23 years or so. I started there in 1989 and took a hiatus when my kids were small. Returned to the same company as a temp when they were school age (that service isn’t counted) and then back as a permanent employee again several years later.</p>
<p>Do you guys see the younger generation moving from job to job more often or am i imagining things? I feel like a lot of people just have no loyalty to a company and will go wherever the money is in regards to new jobs. Maybe that’s just part of the company not having a good culture to keep people there. I have several friends who have changed employers every year since college… Mostly by choice.</p>
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<p>First “real” job: 3 years
Next job: 3 years
Took almost 20 years off, although I did substitute teach during the last 5 years of my “break.”
Back to work: 3 years
Next job: 1 year
This job: 4 months … and I would like to stay another dozen or so. I am 53 & will probably work until at least 65.</p>
<p>Do you guys see the younger generation moving from job to job more often or am i imagining things? I feel like a lot of people just have no loyalty to a company and will go wherever the money is in regards to new jobs.</p>
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<p>What I see is that it is the companies who have no loyalty to their workers, and workers need to leave in order to make more money. I grew up in Michigan, where getting a professional job in the auto industry was coveted. My H has been with a Big 3 automaker since he started college in 1976. He stayed because of the job security, benefits, regular raises, and retirement. Through the years, the company has been decimated, and he is one of the few whose job was “secure” — although that was never a given. The benefits, raises, and retirement are gone. It’s the way of the world now, and young folks need to move around to get anywhere in life. Plus, many companies treat their workers less than ideally - so why stay??</p>
<p>I guess it’s a two way street. If the place has loyalty to the employees maybe the employees would have it to the company.</p>