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[dzuunmod]

How many of you (those of you who are roughly my age) have held a job for five years? I could be wrong, but I suspect there aren't many 27 year olds in this day and age who have. At least, not a full-time job. There are exceptions, but it's fairly rare

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[endersgame3]

http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/psychology/career_seminar1.htm

important line from the article: The average twentysomething entering the job market for the first time this year can expect, on average, 9 to 13 job changes in a working lifetime. (Put differently: the average job in America now lasts only 3.6 years.) Those are projected median figures, which means that 50% of you can expect more job changes than that.

i've been in my department 3 years and 8 months now. although, as you know, i changed job titles in the department about 3 months ago.

[dzuunmod]

Yeah, I've heard similar statistics for Canada. When most people our age hear that I've been in the same job for five years (actually five plus years), they're very, very surprised.

[queerbychoice]

I stayed at my first post-college job for five and a half years, until they laid me off. I feel the same way about it as you: extremely relieved to be out of there. And everything in my life has changed within about the last two years except my city, too! Job, apartment, love life . . . I even have a cat now, and didn't two years ago. It's actually been a little over two years since my job changed, and almost exactly two years since my apartment changed, but it is all a relief.

[dzuunmod]

I'm happy to see you so happy lately! Go us!

i'm close enough

[iterative_steps]

i've been at my job for 3 years. this is the longest one i've had. i think when i finish school i'll keep a job much longer

[gregorama]

I've got a couple years on you but my current job is 6 years and counting while my previous was 8 years. I'm old school. :p

[phrawzty]

3 years was my longest-running job, but it was sometimes part-time, sometimes full-time, so... i suppose my longest, unbroken full-time job was 2 years.