What's the longest you've worked anywhere or at somegthing?

23yrs with my second employer so far, multiple roles, should move at some point I suppose!!

Bryan, the key is if it works for you or not and if it's working for you and you feel no real need to move on then why not just carry on?

Me,
Electrician, industrial stuff.
Bloke wot fixed computer stuff from home.
Bloke wot fixed computer stuff mostly for ICI.
Bloke wot fixed computer stuff and ran contracts mostly to do with govt stuff. DSS, DHSS, MoD, BTP, etc.
Bloke wot tested stuff, did product approvals, H&S and auditing etc for group of companies.
Apart from that, worked in a pub whilst at college, did guvvy jobs. Actually the guvvy jobs were possibly amongst the most enjoyable or maybe it was just my age.

I've now been mostly economically inactive for over 12 years, that's longer than I ever worked anywhere.

Edit.
I forgot. After being an electrician I did three years with Systime computers as a bench engineer and I did enjoy that but I wanted to get out and about as the field guys got more money and a car.

That's all interesting Ben. I think remember you being disappointed that you couldn't pursue a career in the navy but I'd guess you see going another way as a good thing now?

Where are you now? I thought about you when I went to Singapore, I loved the place 

Love the photo of the MBS. I'll post a proper reply when I'm home

Thank you.

I took that with my Sony A7 and Sony 35mm f2.8.  Have another 

I started off working for one of the Marconi companies, part of GEC. There were 3 or 4 different Marconi companies on the one site and about 2000 people worked there in total across all the companies. I thought "there's a career for me here" but soon found out that there was a lot of empire building by managers, and a whole lot of politics to contend with that got in the way of doing a good job. After a couple of years I had had enough, I'd tried to move on internally but it was frowned upon and when I handed in my notice the response was along the lines of "That's about what we expect from graduates, 2 years and you're off to somewhere new". So it appeared that there was no attempt to develop people and use their knowledge and skills. I joined a small family-owned and run business for an interesting year before being made redundant because they were losing work left, right and centre. They went under shortly afterwards, the family had milked the business hence they were uncompetitive on price and weren't getting new contracts. The next place was OK but I sort of outgrew the job after 2 years and then they relocated to somewhere that wasn't that easy for me to get to, and so my employment history continued with a string of "bad" employers, many of which are no longer trading.

I spent 7 years working with a company making subsea positioning systems and 7 years working with a medical device company, leaving only because our Department Manager became very aggressive, physically and mentally assaulting his staff - but the company stood by him as he was one of the first to join them when they were a start-up.

I unexpectedly changed jobs last Autumn after an out-of-the-blue approach from an agency working for a client (my current employer) and I hope I stay there until I retire, whenever that may be and probably a few years after I qualify for a state pension

I've just celebrated 15 years in my current job which isn't bad going. I might have been able to climb the greasy pole of my chosen career a bit more if I'd moved around but the stability I get from my job has been much more valuable especially as both my daughters are going through some very challenging times with regards their mental health (my 13yo hasn't been to school properly for coming on 3yrs which has required me to be around a bit more). I enjoy the diversity of my job still and get to visit lots of interesting places and I earn enough that I no longer find there's too much month left at the end of my money these days!

I am about to move into the 15th year running my own practice. I don't really keep records but I think 7 years was my longest period anywhere else. Financially I took a big hit setting up on my own but for the last 10 years I have done Ok and although I get lots of pressure, it is different from the pressure you get within a larger organisation where other people are telling you what you need to achieve. I also hate some of the politics in larger firms where you can get stabbed in the back just because someone else sees you as an obstacle.

Yeah the Navy was a bust but silver linings and all that yeah

I’ve worked for three law firms. I spent two and a half years at the first, 14 years at the second, and have been at the current one for nearly five years.

13 years , 2 different main role changes, but done lots of different bits in between

I've been with the current employer for the last 11 years and have done asset finance for the last 20 odd years. Been employed by the big banks which I only left one for voluntarily, the rest of my moving on was down to restructuring or other events well out of my control. I'm in a small brokerage now and it suits as you get the rewards of the work you put in. Not as good as owning your own business, but I'm comfortable which is probably the most dangerous position you can be as an employee.

Getting on for 23 years in the same company. A couple of roles during that time but pretty much always in the same domain. I started as a computer engineer and now manage a (small) team that oversee global endpoint security (for approx 125k people / 200k devices) so its fairly dynamic and I get to interact with crazy smart people on a daily basis.

That said, one thing I've never been prepared to do is 'play the games' necessary to advance quickly (& one of my senior leaders for years definitely held me back because of it) as I still feel that doing a good job should override the politics ( )

I could earn significantly more by moving - as someone else mentioned either in this thread or another, lack of movement means you rapidly fall behind market rate - but it's the people, work and culture that have kept me here so far.

I never had to worry about things like school pickups, attending kids events, taking time out for doctors/dentists, being at home for deliveries etc - the flexibility is such that i've been able to work how I choose for many years with little / no micro managing etc I feel respected by peers and leaders so it all adds up.

I'm lucky enough to earn a decent wage so heat vs eat is not a concern and it might sound absurd but an extra 20/30/40k wouldn't drastically change my life / outlook and the flip side would be having to find the energy again to prove myself in a new company/environment etc in exchange for nicer holidays/car but with less time to enjoy things!!!

About 18 years off and on in various places (Hospitals), longer than the Army which I did in two stints.

The nhs/private/hospital work ended due to a propensity for certain staff members to cut corners safetuy wise due to "We don't have time for that nonsense". Those same people are crying about pay, staffing levels and respect. Yeah, right.

Plenty of good and well meaning individuals. As a profession, tough to work with or care about.