How long have you been at your current job?

Beat that, suckaz.

x-post, Yeah the money keeps me here too.

Well it's by a narrow margin, but I'm not a sukka then - it's my fifteenth year at the current day job.
I'm pretty content, for it allows me more or less conveniently to deal with my "other jobs" (radio and stuff).

It's nice to be able to look in my bank account and see that it isn't empty, yes.

I was about to start complaining about my job, but that's not very constructive at this point.

-- V. Onda (vond...), November 25th, 2003

i do, actually.

I was in a previous job for over 7 years though, and that almost killed me by eating my brain. Working for the public service is a dead end hell hole. Not that my current job is much chop but at least I'm online all day and I get free innernet at home!

My longest job ever.

Wow, an old thread here for sure, but I felt like a revive because:

* in May, it was ten years since I moved to SF, meaning it was also ten years since I started my current job, and

* this week, I've now reached thirty years as a whole (counting some earned credit) in the wider UC system

Time flies, etc.

Nearly as long as this thread has existed

Been in my current role nearly six and a half years and that's really twice as much as it oughta be tbh

Next month will be 20 years at one of my part-time jobs.

I've basically only had three full-time jobs as an adult (knock on wood). First one was 4 years, second was 14, current has been 6.

like 14 years? The post-covid work-at-home thing has really handcuffed me to them, I just can't imagine getting up every morning and commuting into the city

They could probably give me a pay cut and I would stay on, for that reason alone

I have been teaching at T3mple University since 2017, which is the longest I have ever had a steady employer (even if I am but an adjunct), and have been at the gym since April of last year.

My current educational striving (for my library science degree) will hopefully lead to a more steady, long-term job for the remainder of my life. I am contemplating applying to a library job *at* T3mple, but I love my team at the gym (I am assistant manager) and I'm not ready to leave just yet.

18 years public service, 10 years civil service, three in this dept/grade, have had six roles in that time (3 x pairs of 2 jobs at a time)

A little over two years at my current day job (health insurance marketing in a different blood-red state than the one I live in... the next few months, post-hideous budget bill, when people start signing up for Medicare plans, are gonna be funnnnn).

Been working with one particular freelance client doing proofreading/copy editing/ghostwriting/book-doctoring since 2017.

Been running Burning Ambulance (not a job exactly, but it takes up a lot of my time and generates/loses enough money that it's a factor in my taxes) since 2010.

Been writing about music for money since 1996.

I think the longest I've ever lasted at a full-time office job was five years (editing a porn magazine, 2000-2005).

5 years at my state job. i don't like it. trying to move, at least laterally. it's been a miserable endurance test tbh.

four years and four months, I hate it and it is slowly killing me, however I am getting better at it, which is something, or maybe it's not.

20 years this September and they’ll have to carry me out dead. I actually love what I do.

No shade on others

As a person who hates their job I appreciate hearing from people who enjoy their jobs as a reminder that alternatives may be better and I should keep applying and not just give up.

"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called 'Everybody,' and we meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey Show I think

19 days.

Graveyard has been hell on functioning like a real person (trying to bid on a late evening slot - 2:30 to 11) but in that span (tonight is my Friday making three complete work weeks) I've done maybe ~30 hours of real labor so that's cool.

As a person who hates their job I appreciate hearing from people who enjoy their jobs as a reminder that alternatives may be better and I should keep applying and not just give up.

― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, July 2, 2025 11:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah me too. dear boring, maryland, what do you?

i've realized that my situation, even though it feels existentially dire, does not need to mean that i have to completely change careers. which is what i've spent the last about 2 years trying to do. i actually still do like my career area (archives) - it's just that for a few particular and weird reasons, my current position is hell. 1) shit manager. 2) i am on the records management side of things (archives and records management are related, but the type of person and temperament who does one or the other well is very different, and the motivations are different. archives - preserve cool old stuff. records management - uptight corporate legal risk management bs). 3) i am not even doing records management, i am advising others on how to do records management and being the red-tape bottleneck person they have to deal with in order to do it "right" according to how our stupid state bureacracy has set it all up. 4) even though i like my career area, it is unfortunately heavily populated with mormons where i live, a group of people i have a real hard time being around for very personal reasons, so networking and going to professional org conferences and such at least regionally is hell and i stopped doing it a long time ago.

i have a chance to change at least 1) this year, maybe 2). the others... no idea how i'm going to navigate my way through this mess tbh. the way so far has been "do the few things i need to do in order to not get fired and literally drop everything else, because it's such a bullshit job that no one will really notice and why the hell am i doing work that no one notices anyway?" also take liberal advantage of my three work from home days to play hooky in the mountains or go grocery shopping etc. this whole experience has definitely reinforced my inclination to be a "work to live, not live to work" kind of person.

If I look at my job as "control system engineering kinds of things", I've done that for many different employers for 40 years. The longest I was at a single employer was 9 years, which ended in 2020.

20th anniversary of my hire date on the 11th
I find this mildly horrific

Five years tending bar. Before that, 20 freelance years of DTP/prepress/gofer for a livestock industry magazine. Those two jobs overlapped for 18 months.

four years and four months, I hate it and it is slowly killing me, however I am getting better at it, which is something, or maybe it's not.

Three years at my current school, six total in my current incarnation as a public school teacher. I like it and yet I still think it is probably slowly killing me. I spend ten months out of every year pouring everything I have, every speck of energy and personality in me, into being entertaining and informative to teenagers, and it feels meaningful and even fun as it's happening, and yet it also feels like I am being drained of my life force by a Doctor Who villain until there is nothing left for me.

Almost 4 years, which already makes it the second longest I've had. And longest full time one by a huge margin. Planning to continue as long as my body agrees.

Many xps: Map, I’m a city planner for a local government in the DC area.

7 years! which is about 5 years longer than I thought I’d be after 2 years in the job

going permanently remote in 2020 was the main catalyst for staying. i dont like the work very much at all but being in my quiet home is something i did not expect to need/require & makes up for a lot i dont like idk that sounds lame

Lily, I could never do what you do and be “on” like that, I can imagine how it’s emotionally and physically draining.

11 years. the job is fine, i like the people i work under and will stick around as long as they do. i don't believe there's another job out there for me that will be better than fine, i don't like working enough to conceive of a 'dream job'

17 years*. If its up to me I plan to be here til I retire, its comfy, pays reasonably, and isn't a terrible strain on my personal time/life outside work.
But IT being what it is, who knows where the wind blows.

*actually technically I have worked for 4 seperate companies in this timeframe but the job bennies etc has remained continuous thanks to mergers/buyouts etc.

9 years, in a job that i find…fine. Doing social work for the state, splitting time between WFH, a barely functional office, and visiting people in their homes. My boss is friendly and supportive and not particularly knowledgeable about any intricacies of the job. I have zero desire to move higher in the agency as it seems like trading freedom for a little more money and endless meetings. However if this bill passes i may be out of luck, as all the services i coordinate are funded by Medicaid.

5 years and I'm leaving in August. I'm implementing projects that promote human rights / governance in DRC in relation with critical minerals. I started feeling the gap between what I thought it would be and what it is early on, endured for a few more years, and now I am completely fed up with it. Need a fresh start.

7 years! which is about 5 years longer than I thought I’d be after 2 years in the job

going permanently remote in 2020 was the main catalyst for staying. i dont like the work very much at all but being in my quiet home is something i did not expect to need/require & makes up for a lot i dont like idk that sounds lame

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 3, 2025 12:22 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

NOT LAME.

I have managed to be don't ask don't tell WFH even though policy dictated hybrid 3-days-in-2-days-out for absolutely everyone. My manager didn't personally care as long as no one else made it an issue. ABout a month ago HR puts out a feeler to my mgr asking her if I am applying for WFH status and if so do I need my desk. The catch: they do not approve anyone for WFH status unless medical. So due to this bit of brinksmanship I am complying with the 3-in-2-out rule.

However, when/if the next covid wave hits I will get a letter from my GP mandating full WFH, this was accepted by HR during the last wave/spike (I've got immune factors).

And yet, I do like working in the office. But the subway trip there and back destroys me, especially at the end of the day. An age thing, I think.

yeah not lame xp. i have actually come around to 'being in the office is ok sometimes'. maybe once a week? we're at twice a week. wfh is such a godsend for just .. reclaiming your time. because fuck devoting 40 hours of your week to vampires just to survive.

i'm also in the boat of 'i don't like my job but 3 wfh days makes up for a lot'. enough so that i turned down a lateral position that would be under a much better manager doing something i actually enjoy doing because it was 5 full in-office days with an option to move to 4 after a few months. another one of those is opening though and this time i think i need to completely go for it.

Nineteen years, WFH for four or five. I think it’s the only job I’ve ever interviewed for. No particular background or interest in the field, when I joined, but it’s varied, international and interesting enough to stick with.

I am the rare bird who truly dislikes WFH— I thrive off of in-person human interaction, and the 1+ year that I was WFH was spent in a haze of depression and alcohol. I will never WFH again, absent dire circumstances that we can all imagine.

wfh changed my life. i actually have time/energy for creative work and various household chores, and i spend all day every day with my cats :))))

been at my current job eight years. soooo. close to a sabbatical, which happens year ten

Full-time and supply, 34 years come the fall.

I've been with my employer for almost 25 years. The job title and duties have changed a couple of times but it's essentially just a twist on the original role

11 years. Four times longer than I've had any other job. The money is OK, but only because I don't have children and have no plans to, and I'm in a housing situation which is a lot cheaper than most people my age. The work itself isn't what I want to do, but in an adjacent area so skills from my dream job give me an edge.

[The first few years of wfh for me I felt more energized and effective since I no longer had a four hour daily commute (all transit!). But I moved in the interim much closer to my work and my commute is only 29 minutes and now I prefer coming in. I feel logy and lazy at home now.

-Only 20 minutes now-

Full-time and supply, 34 years come the fall.

I like the term “supply” describing what we in the states call a substitute teacher, but it also makes you sound like you’re selling cleaning products and paper.

I've had American friends say that to me before!

Switched from a job in travel marketing to teaching 10 years ago. Did 9 years in secondary (11-16) and like Lily, felt it slowly sucking the life out of me. Moved to sixth form last September (16-18); it's still tough but nothing like as emotionally draining, and I've felt certain elements of my self surface over the year.

So, my answer is one year.

<1 on the job, about 3 in the dept, and about 10 total as a civil servant. it's a living. better than past government areas. and my private sector time sucked.

tho 2 years got the Japanese govt (public school) a good romp!

years for*