The Longest Job

The longest I've had a job was 11 years. I've never threw down a mop and just left my position. I've definitely thought about more than once. Except it was my pen not a mop. I just think giving a notice is more appropriate for me. I don't want the bad reference. The job I started as a kid (carhop) I held that position until I went into the military. Believe it or not this job was probably the funniest job I've had. Best Wishes!

If my memory serves me right, the longest would be for 3 years. I was a receptionist for a known hotel back then. Just didn't see any growth in it so I decided that having to put up with client's qualms for 3 years is long enough. Some breath of fresh air was inevitable :)

The longest I've been at one job was seven years and that was six years too long. I hated that job all but one year when I wasn't on the phones. It was a job at a call center. I stayed that long because it was decent money and I had bills to pay.

The longest I have worked for a job is 1 year in an aircond company. I was a telesales. I am bored making appointments everyday and settle down in this company is useless. The employer I worked for is an a****** she asked me to mop the toilet floor, clean the pantry which isn't my duty. Anyway I did it until she asked me to work at her house. She put me in a room with telephone and asked me to make sales there. I am so boring I have no one to talk to face to face and at last I told her I have to have a vacation and after my holiday, straightaway I never go to her house anymore. That's the way I resign. And I also found out that she did not contribute $$$ to my employee's provident fund account. But after 1 year, she credit my account because of the previous employee sued her.

Nine years is my record. I have done the ***k this I cannot take any more thing and walked out without considering how I was going to pay the rent, I hated the job so much…I had been there for around three months and the boss was a nasty piece of work, come to think of it I’ve had a few crappy bosses! I only want to work for myself now. I’ve been in the workforce since I was sixteen years old and I can honestly say I’ve had enough of being told what to do by a pompous a**se!

My longest job is also one where i felt the most achievements from. It was a retail job and a great learning experience. You dealt with different people and different circumstances everyday. I believe that i learned a lot about people and society in general there.; I worked my retail job for more than 6 years and they were 6 worthwhile years.

Hi jahernandezrivas, i have so far joined in one company in which i'm working at present , but hoping to shift into other company soon, waiting for the proper chance...and i've been working here since 3 years(around)

My first job was pet sitting for neighbors as a child. I only had about three clients - only one of whom was regular - but it was pretty good pay for a kid ($5 per day). When they'd go on a week-long vacation, that was almost $50! I had that job for about five or six years or so. That was the only job that I can remember even being at before my current one, which is really self-employment. I have been self-employed from 2003 or from right now, depending on how you look at it. The idea for my company was first conceived in 2003, but it has been a work in progress for ages and ages and only recently have I come up with a decent money-making plan in addition to my products and services (my main service is dance productions, so it is hard to find ways to make money when you're not performing, and performing doesn't pay that much as it is). I have resorted to doing online activities that all have something to do with my production company in some way. So far it has been working out pretty well and I feel that in the future it will provide me with a full-time living if I am able to keep moving along in the direction that I am. So... if you go from the 2003 mark, my business/self-employment would definitely be my longest job. If not, then I am hoping it will be my longest job as I would like to be able to do it for the years to come! Luckily I have never had a job mopping floors or anything of that nature, but I don't think I would last in a job like that either.

The longest would have to be doing what I love, wildland firefighter, and I've been doing this for 14 years. Some years were with a volunteer fire department others I was on with a paid state crew. The secret to longevity is loving what you do. I also know I won't be able to do this forever and one day I will have to hang up my helmet, so to speak. But until then, I will keep responding. I also have just started my own business this year, which I know will take a little while to get off the ground.

The longest so far is 14 months. I worked as a school teacher before but I worked there for only a year cause I got married and have to leave my hometown cause I will be living in my husband's hometown. If I stayed in my hometown until now, I'll probably work there until i think its enough.

The longest job I've had is my current day job. It's my second job after graduating college and I can say that I might be staying a little longer even though the compensation isn't that good. You see I am a design engineer but earn not as much as any other engineers out there. I've been on the job for 3 years now and what I actually loved about it is the job itself. It helps me improve my skills as a designer and it makes my mind work every time we are given a project. At the same time, the job has its perks meaning the whole working environment is pretty lenient most of the time.

Oh gosh the memory. Grrr! I had a job as a Surgical Business Administrator for this one absolute nut of a Doctor. OMG he is still in business. He was the worst well known for his discriminative ways. My job duties were daily interrupted by the firing of employees because he simply did not like the way they looked. I could hire a new employee to later have to fire them when only being on the job for 20 minutes. 70% of my weekly time at work consisted of interviewing new employees. This man would come in on days and as soon as the employees heard the door the entire facility would cringe. He would throw dirty instruments during surgery at the assistants, he would call employees fat and say they are going to break his office chairs. He actually would walk past them and stomp on their feet. I though I could hold on for as long as I could because of my major debts and I suppose the insecurity of finding another well paying job, because although he was this mean he never really directed it towards me but it tore my heart out each time I saw him in action with the other employees. Several reported him but most such type of complaints are construed as disgruntle employees and most just went away and glad not to have dealt with him. Well I just could not take any longer and mind you I was his longest standing employee. He has been in business for 19 years and I was with him for 3 1/2. I use to dread the 1 hour and 40 minute each way to get to work and one day, I took a deep breath and said God help me but I am getting the _____ out!, and I did. Since that job I was in the same field with another company for 12 years before they retired and closed.

LOL. There were a few times i wanted to do that at a job! My record so far is four years and that was working at Subway restaurants. I didn't really like the one I worked at and I want to say I will never work at one again but you never know...I might find myself behind those prep tables and food service line again. Although I have thought about leaving a job once, the shortest I ever stayed at one place was a year. I was raised to show integrity and responsibly and all that jazz...so unfortunately that caused me to stay too long in an environment that wasn't good for my health and I now take meds for it...LOL...but yeah, at that particular job maybe I SHOULD have just "thrown down the mop" and said f**k it. It probably would have saved me prescription payments and doctors visits today. Sad isn't it? I'm I'm only 24...

I'm still a student and I am looking for experience also... hope it would be better than i thought.