This past March marked my 12th anniversary with my agency. {Wow!} When I first started, I was in a different, entry-level position in a brokerage unit & honestly didn't think I'd last thru my 90-day probationary period. I'll have to tell you about the man I worked for (and still do, but in an HR capacity) someday.
I've been in HR since 1989 (HS senior year). HR is where I started and I know this my calling. I really enjoy what I do can't see myself doing anything non-related. It's a dirty job....well, you know the rest.
My question to you is: what's the longest you've ever been on job?
PS HR People need love too! *giggles*
I graduated from college in 2000 and got my first REAL job that fall. I was there for FOUR YEARS, working in HR for the last three... until my position was eliminated.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to get into HR years ago, just never happened. Longest job I held was 8 years New York Public Library. My current position it will be six years in November.
ReplyDeleteI was with my last company [Atlanta Journal Constitution newspapers] for about 14 yrs before I left in 1997 and came to the US Court of Appeals. I've been here at the Court going on 11 yrs. I ain't leaving til I retire...IF I retire.
ReplyDeletelol.. Well you know I've been here 10 years, will be 11 in August.. Oddly before this I worked at Walgreens for 2 days... lol and then kmart for almost a year... Well, I took a break from the crazy department store jobs after Kmart to go back to school... Then I landed this job,,, with the very little help of my dad... (word of mouth type deal)... Anyway I started here working in the file room @ 21 years old.. I gotta tell you... 3 months into it I realized that filing paperwork was not my calling... I talked to the boss and told him my concern and he said float around and find out where you wanna be.. I soooooo appreciated that, cuz most bosses would have said if you dont like it then move on... i went through a few positions til I finally found my niche in the billing department... And I've been here in this capacity for nearly 5 or 6 years.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I love it and sometimes I cant stand the folks I work with, but hey, thats life... I definitely dont wanna retire from here... In fact, I got the travel and I dont-wanna-work-no-more bug in me...
I've worked at been the same company for 13 years, 14 in September. This is my first full-time job since graduating from college. I've held numerous positions. The longest was Employee Benefits supervisor foe six years. I don't have a calling. Never have and probabaly never will. I work to pay the bills. If I had my choice I'd be a professional traveler!
ReplyDeleteI've had that in me for quite some time. My dream job is "Professional Traveler". In the meantime, I got bills AND I like to eat! *HA!*
ReplyDeleteGreat minds!
ReplyDeleteOk,Mo you can't have my dream job! Its mine!
ReplyDeleteOk... since we got this professional traveler thing going... how come we dont put like minds together and make something happen... and I too like to eat...lmaooooo Sometimes too much... lol
ReplyDeleteLongevity can be a beautiful thing, especially in the day and time...
ReplyDeleteIt is refreshing to see that most of us can hold a job longer than 6 months. I thought that was a rarity in our generation.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as the HR Lady, job hopping is never a good thing.
I was with the Dep't of Defense for 12 years. Never thought I'd leave there. Most of the folks there are true "lifers." But in 2000, I switched over the Dep't of Labor and have been here since. I promised my-then supervisor 2 years. 8 years later, I now have HER job and am in charge and while still looking, am fairly content.
ReplyDeleteWell... one thing I learned a long time ago, is that no one has job security and even if you're the shittiest employee, make yourself irreplaceable...(and Im not saying Im a shitty employee... lmaooo) But in doing so also... I kinda set myself up for being the go to person for everything... On one hand its good, because i know that I would have to do something pretty stupid to lose my job, but the pressure gets mounted on... especially now that we're going through accreditation... I swear, sometimes you guys think Im just up messing around on the net at night... But I have volumes and volumes of paper work that I take home and shit that I have to read to get myself up to speed... So, in a sense, when Im having fun with guys, its because I like to... and sometimes I really need it... otherwise I might crack, from too much pressure and stress..
ReplyDeleteWell, THIS job was the longest, even though it was a Temp Job. It seems as though thats all I've ever gotten were temp jobs since I graduated..but hell, it paid the rent. HEHE. I'll be coming up on a year now wit this one.
ReplyDeleteYou been working and havent sent me one gosh dang on gift for:
ReplyDeletevalentines day,
girlfriends day,
sweetest day,
I just gotta have you day,
Its been a long time day,
Just for the sake of it day, by birthday...
Hell you aint sent me a gift for nuffin yet... what the french toast is up with that...
Dude... get it together...lol
I am not a hopper. I don't see how some people just hop from one place to the next. The shortest amount of time I have spent at a job was almost 2 years. The longest was 6 years at the job I was laid off from in 2005. I have been here going on ..3 years in Dec. I love working in a clerical background. My dream job is an admin position at my church. They do more then just general clerical stuff - they always have different projects going on and that's the kind of stuff that I like. Except for the time I was laid off for 5 months in 2005, I have been working since I graduated.
ReplyDeleteHonestly my dream job would be somewhere involved in Videography... behind the scenes type deal... I love editing videos... (please dont take those little videos I posted as an example,,,, Im actually pretty good)... thats what I went to college for.. but by the middle of year 2 I stopped going... had some issues I was dealing with... But Im trying to get back into it... Me and the nephew and a friend of mine are right now working on a documentary re: AIDS on the Westside of Chicago... The highest populated area of infected HIV patients in Chicago. We're hoping to be done by January to enter it in the new years Young Urban Filmmakers Contest... So, it would be nice if you guys would be prayerful... I never knew how big a project like this would be til we started... The editing part is, to me, the easy part... Right now we're running into difficulty getting people (HIV+) to talk to us... And I completely understand... So, were trying to come up with other means... Anyway,,, hopefully by mid july or august, we'll be able to start posting some small bits and pieces of it... I hope...
ReplyDeleteAfter 3 years it's time for me to move around if I'm not growing with the company. However, I will never move from an entry level position to another entry level position.
ReplyDeleteNine years with TJ Maxx this August. Who knew? Nine years ago I was told that I would be promoted, and once they recognized me as a work hog, I never made it to upper management. Good grief, lemme grow already. Been in 5 stores during this time, each time I was moved under the promise of being promoted and the current GM I am under now, ain't know way or no how I am being promoted under him, he runs a dictatorship. LOLOL
ReplyDeleteI've been a city employee for 19 years (May 9th). The first 17 I was with Economic Development and there were probably 15 years out of them that I pretty much hated to go to work every day, but I had a lot of flexibility. Two years ago my family and I went to volunteer during a cleanup effort after our city was hit by two tornadoes and I ran into my present boss who asked if I'd consider coming to his office (Community Relations) on loan because his secretary was going through chemo. I never went back and am happy as a lark with the people and the position.
ReplyDeleteDang... which TJ you work out... I need a discount...lol
ReplyDeleteBUt think of how it will feel when you finally move into the position that you're working for.. And just think about all the parking tickets you'll fix for me...
I guess you should be with that second apartment you living... I mean working in... lol I like that set up though... real nice..
ReplyDeleteDamn girl, how many Tickets you got? You may be a liability just by knowing you! LMBOOOO
ReplyDeleteI work at the one on State ST.
This job is the longest I have ever been in one company. Although I have worked in many different areas of the bank and took 5 months off after I had my son, I've been with my current employer for almost 10 years. I can't believe it myself.
ReplyDeleteHey, I've gone through hell to get where I am! I have no shame enjoying it now!
ReplyDeleteI was a LPN since I was 21......I was working up until 1997, when I met my kids father. Took time off to have a family(thought it was going to be more, but it wasn't). Now, I have been a 911 opeator for almost 3 years. I still have my license to work as a LPN if I decide to go back...
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