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

48 years. Not a day feels like work. Now those oil field days in my youth were work.

Accountant.

Once I understand something it's boring.

I show up eager to learn. I learn it. Then it's like pulling teeth to get me to do it again. Especially if I can't listen to something really stimulating in the background.

I feel like people think I'm showing up being a shitbag. I'm not. I'm here with a good attitude and want to stay. But I'm also not going to deny that most everything is so goddamn boring. Especially in accounting. I held a job out of school for close to a year and we did the same process month over month, same fricking thing over and over. I'd love to be content with it, but I had to leave.

No idea what to do about it. Maybe I need meds.

I was able to make it through school because I found the material challenging and interesting.

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Is it as common? Probably not. From the employer side, though, in my industry, it's looked at negatively if you jump from job to job, and you're not in your mid 20's. Once you get in your 30's or older, and you are still doing that, you could have issues with future employment.

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That’s really not what I see in my industry. I’m sure there’s still some older folks that might look at a resume and think that though.

I’d encourage people to move for better opportunities if it makes sense. It’s the only way you get significant pay increases in the long term.

I get your point that if you can’t demonstrate more than 1.5 years of service in 20 years of work history that is an extreme example and might look bad. Might be better to move every 3-4 or so.

The fantasy that companies of any size truly have “loyalty” is just that.

It’s like this. You start a job, work for a bit to figure out what it is you want to do with your life. Then you wake up at 50 years old and say “WTF did the time go??? I’m old!!!! OMG, I’m getting AARP mail outs!!!! Then you start shopping for a cemetery plot and make arrangements so not to be a burden on your family after you pass and the next thing you know, you wake up dead.

I was at my last job for 10’ish years. I liked the company when I first started there. It was a fun environment. By the time I had reached 10 years, I had built up a lot of goodwill and they could be really flexible when I needed it.

Got laid off during the COVID bs.

1) max PTO
2) know a lot of the people around me for years
3) know expectations
4) know advancement path
5) seniority
6) way down on the Totem pole of “last hired, first fired”

If I were to just ship chasing the dollar I risk losing all the above. And in a future down market I am at greatest risk of job security

…..also there is something to be said about loyalty.

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Us boomers give the plant 40 good years and they return the favor with pay, a pension, a watch, etc etc

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generation X here, but i completely disagree. the boomers of management took everything away, like pensions, accumulated time, etc and then complain when millennials jump from job to job.

Been at my job for 28 years because I like weather aviation.

The last job I had as an employee, I was there 11 years. The work could be hazardous, I was the guy that got called if there was a maritime casualty, property or personal injury. It paid well enough that I saved a lot and opened my own business, in a completely different field.

Staying with a company for years can be great if you like the people and the work, I was stuck a few times in a job where the people were jerks and the work was micromanaged by a guy above me. No thanks.

I interviewed for a place a couple of years ago that wanted 5 years commitment to get the job.