<p>Just thought this might make an interesting topic as we had someone with 37 yr anniversary today. It seems these days people bop around a lot as opposed to staying at one place for so long.</p>
<p>I’ll start… 7.5 years but I’ve moved jobs within the company multiple times.</p>
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<p>11 years here. Another 12 at a competing hospital system. So 23 years in health care education.</p>
<p>Ive been working for the greatest employer on the planet (myself) for over 30 years.</p>
<p>My only complaint is that she does not give me enough vacation time.</p>
<p>Musica, i think you need to do something about that! :)</p>
<p>I have so much vacation that i have to creatively come up with ways to use it. This includes taking days off to do chores or just sleep - lol.</p>
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<p>I’ve been with my current firm for 18 years. I came here with a partner whom I followed from two other firms. He is the one who got me promoted beyond my education, but I didn’t follow him when he left here. We had been together for 26 years.</p>
<p>musicamusica, same for the past 14 years for me. Although I need clients to work for, and I usually go to their site. For the past four months I have not had a client! It has been a blissful break (lots of time for the most important thing, CC :D). But I probably need to get back in the next couple of months so I can pay tuition.</p>
<p>Four years for me.</p>
<p>Only two years for me. I seem to be an outlier.</p>
<p>First firm, just short of four years, when my husband and I were both laid off the same day, not long before we would have been vested in our company’s retirement plan. </p>
<p>During the 90s, I did a lot of contract work for engineers and precast concrete fabricators.</p>
<p>DH and I started our own firm in 1999, so it’s been 13 1/2 years now. We love working for ourselves now, but business is slower than it’s ever been and we’re struggling. DH has started working parttime as an employee for a company that writes inspection reports for houses with insurance claims on them. He’s in NY this week, since so many structures were damaged in the hurricane. It is NOT fun work, and we’re both praying he doesn’t have to accept a full-time job with the firm.</p>
<p>I have only had 2 jobs as an adult. Job #1: 16 years at a major consumer packaged goods firm (household name). Job #2 (current): 11 years at a small boutique consulting firm that was a “breakaway” firm founded by escapees from the first place.</p>
<p>Three years for me.</p>
<p>17 1/2 years at the law firm where I now work. 16 years at the one before that. The only two jobs I’ve had since I graduated from law school.</p>
<p>I have been at my current job 13 months (11 months as a contract employee and now perm) after 5 years at my former company, which I loved (I love this one even more, it turns out). My longest stint has been 10 years (91-2001). This is going to be it.</p>
<p>I’ve been with my company ten years this past summer…</p>
<p>28 years in four jobs with the same group of people though with two companies (our group was bought out by another company). I had to pull up my resume to find my start date here. The last time I interviewed was back in the mid-1990s when things were uncertain - we didn’t know that we were the subject of a buyout - just that something was going on related to our employment. So everyone went looking at other companies for work.</p>
<p>We have people working here that are well past retirement age so the company isn’t the type to kick you out when you get to a particular age.</p>
<p>7 years for me and 39 years for DH - we met here (same O&G company) and got married earlier this year :)</p>
<p>10 years for me. 31 years for DH.</p>
<p>It seems like the economy hasn’t hit our jobs too badly based on how long everyone has been at their place of employment! </p>
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<p>8.5 years here, but aquisition closes this month, so who knows. The people in charge don’t expect any personnel changes, but that’s what is always said. Last job was 10 years. Feel blessed professionally.</p>
<p>When I retired in June 2011, I had been with the same employer for 30 years. Prior to that job, I worked in a bunch of different places for 2-4 years each.</p>