Just interested in the longest a forum member has been with the one employer.
I started with mine on 28/1/1974 and will be ending on 17/5/2013 due to an attractive voluntary redundancy otherwise I would have been there for another couple of years. Joining the ranks of the retired after 39 years 3 months and 3 weeks with the same employer is likely to be a culture shock.
Great effort Steve,about 7 years is the longest i've stayed in a job.
Good Luck in your retirement,you'll find plenty to do i'm sure.
21 years for me with the Australian Army. Uniform service
30 year, 4 months for the same company and same boss until my job was outsourced to a man in Bangladore. Finding that I can live on my Social Security and retirement savings, I devote my time to volunteer efforts at the Chicago Botanic Garden.-John
I have been with the same company since 1978, so it's 35 years this year. I still have at least 10 more till retirement, maybe even more if the Government keeps moving the retirement age. Might be able to rack up 50.
Nearly 21 years with Woolies. Started when I was 15. Been in IT for nearly 13 years in 5 roles, had 2 roles outsourced from under me but i'm still there.
been in same gov dept (across 2 states) for 22 years in feb
but i am obviously a baby here tonight in the length of service stakes!
Spent 25 years with one employer then semi -retired but went back to another employer for 8 years......now retired for good.
22 Years with Telstra.!!
,, me .. 30 years with the Brisbane city council , given a $ 32000.00 redundancy , so left with a small super after tax , not being told by my financial adviser that the first $ 105.000 was tax tree , so I invested the lot with him and lost $ 47000.00 ..in the crash , and never ever got it back .. gone forever .. that is why I am just a battler now thanks to his investing in shares and other things ..
,, kel ,, so be very careful .. it can just about destroy your life and also your marrage too ..
I believe that my current role (self employed) would be the longest I have worked at one job. It has been part time since 2003 and full time since 2006. It has been good except my boss won't let me take holidays or give me a pay rise.
Wow what a question..I've had to many jobs in my short time but probably handyman for about 10 years on and off here and there..I would have had 20 jobs or more and started working from about 8 taking the lids off the garbage bins and getting paid in bottles (20 cents a was a lot back then) then at about 12 I started at the local shop so my ejamacation ain't so good but there's heaps of us around :) I've worked for local, state and fed gov and all over the places doing all sorts of things from sales to stock work, building, factory work and basic labouring and that's probably why I'm in such good shape :mocking:
But the problem here is that in recent years the jobs don't last as long and everything is so unstable it's not funny so I think this puts people off buying houses etc as well..I tried and tried and tried to get an apprenticeship but never got one and things have only got worse over the last 20 years and we've lost so much knowledge that we'll never get back. The best example is our past..they've built so many things over the last 10 thousand years and today with all our high tek we still can't and never will be able to do what they did as once the knowledge is gone it's gone forever and they've been doing a similar thing with trades over recent years.
Sorry for going :off_topic:
8 years is the best I have stayed with one employer :ok:
I tend to get bored at work when the learning curve starts to flatten out, The challenge just isn't there anymore for me.
When this happens I simply get another job :good:
I have been with my current employer for the last 5 years and I am still learning new skills and tricks of the trade on just about every job still. :yahoo:
The fact that I am probably the oldest bloke still on the tools in my trade also adds a lot of Kudos as well:angel:
I admire the people that can stay with the same job for decades but that is simply NOT for me, I would be bored stupid if I had to do that.
If the Challenge has gone then so am I with work.
Simply put is, If I stop Enjoying my job I just go and get one that I do enjoy.
"You only have one shot at life, So aim well"
How about unemployed. I started at 13 doing rounds on a fruit truck weekends and holidays. at 14 I worked in the produce section of a hardware store. Selling chook food, garden mulches, fertilisers etc. At 15 I was taken out of school to start work full time in the building industry as an apprentice carpenter by 20 I was foreman on a building estate. I also worked most Friday and Saturday nights for a couple of years as an entertainer on stage, Guitarist , Lead vocals. I worked for several builders self employed all long term up to 12 years. Then I took at look at a job offer from a friend in a top restaurant for a change of scenery. I went in to look one day and stayed for three years as barmanager, barista. The owner sold out and an AH took over. Customers dropped from 300 a night to less than 100 in a few weeks so I left. I returned to building and took job a with a builder. Over 12 years I rose to site manager on big money projects. Hospitals, Churches, Schools etc. Finaly my back packed in and I had a phisical breakdown. I had to retired at 64. In all my working years I was out of work once for a week when a builder suddenly went broke. 49 years full time employment with one week unemployed.
Not the longest time "served "in the one job but certainly the best boss ever award goes to my old boss Rex. He did everything and anything about the place to make things easier and better for me to get the job done when the job wasn't an easy task for a girl! After my boss Rex sold up due to stupid government changes and I got another job I realised how much harder the job was.......and quit. That was a good 15 years ago now and Rex still wins the prize of best boss ever.
Now I hope Mark isn't reading as he's sort of my boss now....
:mocking: your gonna get in trouble PP..looks like there could be a big :aggressive: night tonight so I'll put $10 on PP :mafia: No offence Mark but we all know they always win in the long run..you can never win so just take it on the chin :winkextra:
28 years was mine before I took the redundancy.
Jeff
QuoteHow about unemployed
This has NEVER been a problem, I have always made the smooth transition from one job to the other without loosing my income :yahoo:
QuoteNow I hope Mark isn't reading as he's sort of my boss now....
I am the Boss at work and in the yard at home :good:
But once I step in the door my missus is the BOSS :yahoo:
trout , what about
( SHE , WHO MUST BE OBEYED )
isn,t she the boss everywhere ? except , when you are away at work ..
I tell my wife I am her roadie , just like a live band travelling around the circuit .. ,, kel ,,
I was lucky that I could also walk from job to job as well..even after gettin sacked and use them as a ref :mocking: After working there for a while the quickest place I ever got the sack from was casino meat works 'cause if ya ain't in the union ya sacked..only place I'd ever worked wher you had to be in the union..just walk up and tell'em to stick their union and straight away you get your marching orders :)
ok unemployed hummm
can babies be an excuse? ha ha
i was unemployed in a country town once when i was younger
and i couldn't stand it
so i used to work in a shop for no pay - i offered to and i liked going in and they liked the free labour
then it got me a reputation to be trusted and i got work after that in a few of the local businesses
Yeah it's a bit harder in country areas due to word of mouth but it can also be a good thing as I've got so much work from it :good:
Oh, and yes Robbie they can as we need mums badly, they've probably got one of the toughest jobs..just ask mine :laugh2:
:)
my last baby turned 23 on Thursday
he's a tall and handsome young man now
not the screaming baby anymore!! (thank goodness - drove us nuts!!)
long service with one employer can vary a lot if the rewards are not there.
In the USA, long service in the Military is awarded after only 4 years service I believe. In Australia, it is 15 years/
Long service entitlements, carry over of long service leave etc all influence ones perspective in changing jobs.
I went from a private company, Alcan Aluminium to the Army in 1968, retired from the Army in 1989 and straight into the Victorian prison Service for 13.5 years. On sep 30, 2002 I retired completely.
Lots of loverly long service pay outs and ARL payouts as a result.