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June 2, 1980- June 2, 2009

Gil T.Azell

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Holy shit has it been that long??, I start my 29th year at work Tueday the 2nd.
now I feel old.
 
I haven't even been alive that long, and I won't be until 2014. I can't even fathom having the same job for that much time.
 
Congratulations? Condolences? What's your angle here?

I haven't even been alive that long...

I couldn't imagine working at a job that long. Eventually they catch on that I'm a shitty employee and fire me.
 
The longest I've ever been at a job is a little over 14 years. That was a long time....
 
I'll be 25 years in this job at the end of June. I've been working even longer than that.
That would another 'Holy Shit has it been that long?' from me too.
 
I've been working for 35 years now and have spent the last 20 of those years with the same company. That's still hard for me to believe, but the stability has been nice.
 
In August, I reckon I'll have spent just over half my life at my current company (In fact, the only one I've worked at). Job wise, it's a little less but it sure has gone quickly.
 
Shit, just ten years ago I was paying 0.89 a gallon of unleaded, ST:TNG was still not off the air that long, Clinton ws using cigars in a manner not conforming to the labeling, and we were still dicking around with the lying & evasive North Korea (a lesson two presidents later Obama has FAILED to learn).

I could go to Taco Bell and get a taco for 0.59 cents at certain locations. Not it's 0.89.

And Jerry Goldsmith was still alive.

Certain not better times, but still beating what today is offering.
 
Congratulations to the OP, I guess.

I don't think I'd ever want to stay with a company that long myself, esp. not if it's in the same job. If you've moved through a few different jobs, or up the ladder, then I guess it would be OK.
 
^^^ An engineer told me that at the firm she worked at previously, they would discard employment applications from people who had worked a few years here and then a few years there, etc. Working your way up the ladder, so to speak.

Some may consider changing employers every few years as a positive sign of ambition and a natural course in a career, some employers may not regard it so highly.
 
Just to make you feel even older...

...I was born five years after you started working there. :lol:
 
^^^ An engineer told me that at the firm she worked at previously, they would discard employment applications from people who had worked a few years here and then a few years there, etc. Working your way up the ladder, so to speak.

Some may consider changing employers every few years as a positive sign of ambition and a natural course in a career, some employers may not regard it so highly.

True. But if they've got that kind of mindset, I certainly wouldn't want to work for them anyway.

Mind you, my medium-term plans involve working for nobody, so I guess I'm not the ideal person to talk to when it comes to working long-term for a company!
 
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