What's the longest you've stayed? (Job-R)
parallax
no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
The longest I stayed at any one position was 4 years while working at a college doing advancement work. Nice gig, good pay, good people...but I felt like I wasn't making a difference. I continue to do non-profit work, but currently at a social-services agency. (1.5 years and counting)
I am impressed by people who stay in one spot for 20-30+ years. I can't do it.
What's the longest you've stayed?
I am impressed by people who stay in one spot for 20-30+ years. I can't do it.
What's the longest you've stayed?
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350 people in 86, 20 left in 99; it fell to me to switch the lights off, and was still sorting out various operational niceties until 03.
Going for beers with a mob of dudes on 20th, we haven't met for between 15 and 20 years.
Can't recall anything other than good times; had my two eldest kids with one of the office girls, the redundancy cheque paid off the mortgage, and what I learned and who I met was the bedrock of my career.
It was only after that it all went tits up.
Wmic
7 years. I was young and I needed the money.
probably wouldn't trade the experience for anything in the world though.
Longest non-DJ gig is probably my current one. Almost 3 years.
Since then, I've had contracts ranging from one month, to ones lasting 5 years (3 months at a time).
Happy to just take the money as a contractor and not stress raises, who earns more than who, "Annual Performance Reviews" and other such corporate bitterness catalysts.
Man got kids to raise, music to play and bikes to ride. Fuck working to death.
Quit my last day job in 1997 and not going back to that shit.
I was never more than a few years at any one job before then. Shoe repair tended to be seasonal/part time. One time in Seattle I was working at 4 different shoe repair shops at once.
Before shoe repair I did jobs that were best short term,
Telephone solicitations
Drug dealer
Farm work
Dairy farm
Tractor operator (farm and grounds for the feds)
Christmas tree harvesting
Cannery
Luggage repair
Census enumerator
Volunteer coordinator (woulda stayed but organization pulled funding)
And some other jobs I can't remember I am sure.
When you are young, if you spend 6 mos or a year at a job it seems like a lifetime.
if i lost my job tomorrow though - at the ripe ol age of 40yrs old, i have no clue wtf i'd do after this gig...
in ugly duckling = 22 years.
peace, stein...
My longest job tenure has been 7 years at Rutgers University. I work as a professor so I have incredible work autonomy. My other longest gigs include 6 years as a professor at UW-Milwaukee, and 4 years as a preloader at United Parcel Service during my undergraduate studies.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Also:
So key to keeping work-life balance in czech. Among other things (like being a dude), this is why I'm privileged in life.
Have enjoyed every single day of it.
Happy anniversary!
Going on 3 in a warehouse myself (edit: oh, the music store!). Shipping. Ho-hum duties, but it's a small family owned company, they need me and I get paid rather well. This is why I try to get the most out of the 5-9 and weekends as possible.
I'll be taking a sabbatical sometime in 2015 - I can take up to a year off unpaid, with guaranteed position when I come back. I'm not supposed to work, but I'm basically going to use it as a way to try a bit of a major life change. Either go back to school, or maybe move/travel... I don't know. Gotta use that opportunity for a drastic switch-up though... cuz I can just pull chute and go back to managing after a year if it doesn't work out.
/overshare
Congratulations, Rock!!! Now, that is dedication!!! I plan to stay on my gig for the long haul as well. I'll bow out by my early 60s since I don't want to be that washed-up old dude babbling in front of the class. Plus, I have other trails I want to blaze after that.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak