re: People who have worked for a company 10+ Years

24 years as of tomorrow. I'm #3 on the senority list after the 2 owners. Money is great as a Supervisor, and they treat me like family. Who wants to be the FNG at a new place at 53 years of age? Yeah I could move to a new company doing aircraft maintenance and get paid more but the grass isn't always greener someplace else.

Just a heads up depending on the industry after you bounce every 18 months on a few people your resume will tell everyone that you bounce after 18 months. Eventually your opportunities will dry up and your income opportunities will plateau. You’ll end up working for contract companies making half of what your worth bc they only need you for 18 months anyway. If you don’t show some loyalty and start staying 4-5 years at a time it’ll catch up to you.

I'm a single dad with 2 boys full-time. They're 16 and 12 so there are certain perks and freedoms I have to have.

I've been in my current role almost 10 years. 15 total years with the company.

I'm paid well. Not as much as I'd like, but in this market and with what I require, 100 is pretty good. Bonus included.

Lean company so my position seems/feels pretty safe. I'm needed.

I work from home 2 days a week. No raffic.

Almost 30 days of PTO per year.

Annual increases.

If I need to leave early, work from home an extra day or two, I can.

I've got a great boss.

And, not every year, but - the company does Profit sharing. This year, they depositied 5% of my salary into my 401K which is totally seperate from the bi-weekly match.

I've got great benefits. And I like the people I work with. There's no drama ... besides the challenges we face day to day as a company.

Would I like to get a 25% increase and a bigger role? Sure!

Would I like to be challenged more? Yep.

BUT - I have zero help with my boys and no family within 3 hours of me. I'm a dad first and I can't be married to a job 12-18 hours a day while I'm in trying to be super dad too. LOL

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How do you do it? Why do you do it?

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Job security is more important, nowadays, than a big payday, at least for me personally. It depends on the company, but if you are overpaid with less experience, then you are an easy line item to cut when there is a downturn in the economy.

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t when I think about being there for more than a year or so I can't fathom it. I'd love to do it, but as soon as I understand a job I'm bored and want to move on to something new.

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This could be more of a career specific problem for you. But most employers that see that you've worked for 6 companies in 10 years, brings up red flags.

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. Longeast I've stayed at a place has been 18 months. I don't like this.

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I'm assuming you don't have kids yet? Otherwise, you'd learn to settle in.

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Ideally, I'd like to be at this place 5-10 years before bouncing.

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My dad worked for the same company for nearly 40 years before he retired w/ a pension. Maybe it's just my upbringing, but i want my company to be successful, even though my name isn't on the door of the building. I'm a loyal person in general, and i settle in routines easily. I think this comes with age.

I worked for a company out of college that paid well, but treated their people like shite (for 3 years). That experience taught me a lot, early on, about what i really wanted.

There used to be incentives to stay with a company such as pensions and other remuneration. I live very comfortably in retirement having worked for a single company for more than three decades.

I don't think those incentives are there anymore and I don't believe many companies want to foster that "family of workers" mentality anymore. My company evolved in upper management to a model of desiring new employees to having had experience proving themselves at other companies.

I'm a boomer.

I've worked at the same company since finishing grad school 11 years ago

1. Steady career advancement, pay increases, and bonuses based on performance.
2. Work far fewer hours than I would at a peer company and have unlimited vacation.
3. Great bosses that I enjoy working with.
4. Interesting projects that are not repetitive.

I would leave for the right opportunity, but it would need to be a significant step up, not lateral.

Working for same large O&G company but a different role every few years. Great pay and benefits, and now that I've been on the job for 10 years I feel very competent in everything I touch, with helps with feelings of contribution.

I had dreams of being an entrepreneur when I was young, but I had more hustle than cold business sense and logic. So now I'm a company man.

Decent pay. Nice people, including my boss. It's 3 miles from my home in Houston. I could make $20,000 more tomorrow, but I'd drive 45 minutes each way. That's not a good trade.

At some point in your life, time off, benefits, work life balance become more important than chasing that extra $$.

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Also, the grass is not always greener. All it takes is one truly lousy job to make you appreciate your other jobs.

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100% truth! People that think my employer isn't a good one haven't worked enough places.