Same job for 60 years

[Miss Chicken]

Today one of our Tv stations asked on their Facebook page

ABC TV would like to interview a woman who, like Her Majesty, has been in the same job for 60 years. If you know someone please message us as soon as possible

I commented that few women, except for housewives and nuns, would have had this opportunity because back in the 1950s and 1960s many woman were expected to leave the workforce when they married. For example, a married woman could not have a permanent job in the public service in Australia until 1966. I also pointed out that many jobs had compulsory retirement ages.

Someone mentioned women working on family farms etc, and another person mentioned volunteer workers.

So I am asking if anyone here knows anyone (male or female) who have had the same job for 60 years? or 50 years, 40 years?

 

[Squiggy]

Not too many people around who would be working period well into their 80s.

What I don't get about the hullabaloo about Elizabeth is the timing. She passed 60 years in reigning in February and her coronation was 59 years on the 2nd. What are we celebrating 60 years at this point?

 

[Lord Garth]

So I am asking if anyone here knows anyone (male or female) who have had the same job for 60 years? or 50 years, 40 years?

Excluding teachers? No.

I went to high school in the '90s. Where I went, the average teacher started teaching around 1970 and a lot of them were teaching in the '60s. Most of my teachers retired in the '00s (if not the late-'90s).

Now this same school, that used to have mostly teachers in their 50s when I went, is filled with a staff of 20-somethings and 30-somethings.

 

[{ Emilia }]

So I am asking if anyone here knows anyone (male or female) who have had the same job for 60 years? or 50 years, 40 years?

Usually people know when to retire so I'm just going to say:

William Shatner.

 

[Miss Chicken]

So I am asking if anyone here knows anyone (male or female) who have had the same job for 60 years? or 50 years, 40 years?

Usually people know when to retire so I'm just going to say:

William Shatner.

It just seems like 60 years.

I didn't think of actors but I am not sure they do the 'same job' rather than a series of jobs (though that woman who played Alice Horton in Days of our Lives played the same role for more than 40 years).

I think if we accept acting as being the 'same job' Mickey Rooney would be the winner.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I wasn't talking about acting. Shatner isn't acting.

Shatner's job has been "being William Shatner" for decades.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Oh, I see.

I try to avoid thinking of Shatner, if I can.

 

[Shatinator]

Oh, I see.

I try to avoid thinking of Shatner, if I can.

Hey-I resemble that remark

 

[MacLeod]

Not too many people around who would be working period well into their 80s.

What I don't get about the hullabaloo about Elizabeth is the timing. She passed 60 years in reigning in February and her coronation was 59 years on the 2nd. What are we celebrating 60 years at this point?

From memory the Queen's offical birthday is considered to be the 2nd June, and it's the 60th anniversary of her Ascension to the throne.

 

[marillion]

There's a woman in my building here who has worked for the New Mexico Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Deparment (through several name changes) for close to 50 years now. That said, she hasn't held the SAME job within the department for that long. She's a super nice lady... I also have a coworker here in State Forestry who has been on the job for almost 40 years. In fact, I think next year is his 40th anniversary. I was three when he first started here as a wildland firefighter... Geeez!!

 

[Finn]

My university once had a professor/girl dorm supervisor who had a reputation for being very strict and proper. She was there for well over 50 years. Not sure how long exactly.

 

[Trekker4747]

Not too many people around who would be working period well into their 80s.

Being Queen has lousy retirement benefits.

 

[RoJoHen]

My dad just crossed the 30-year mark at his job...and of course, now the company is being sold and he doesn't know if he'll even have a job in the next few weeks. Scary shit, especially since he's been making dam near 6 figures for as long as I can remember (and they still have craploads of debt).

Otherwise, no, I don't know anybody who comes even close to 60 years, and I honestly don't see lifelong careers being a trend that sticks around. I'm only 27, and I've had 4 different "fulltime jobs," plus a few other random parttime jobs. My dad has been at his job longer than I've been alive. I just can't fathom doing something for that long without getting extremely restless.

 

[captcalhoun]

Not too many people around who would be working period well into their 80s.

What I don't get about the hullabaloo about Elizabeth is the timing. She passed 60 years in reigning in February and her coronation was 59 years on the 2nd. What are we celebrating 60 years at this point?

From memory the Queen's offical birthday is considered to be the 2nd June, and it's the 60th anniversary of her Ascension to the throne.

correct, her succession was in February, but the parties were scheduled for her Official Birthday in June because 'they' decided to give us 2 days off to celebrate and figured the weather would be better in the summer than early spring.

oops.

 

[Trekker4747]

I dunno, wasn't it still a nice day for England?

 

[iguana_tonante]

he's been making dam near 6 figures for as long as I can remember (and they still have craploads of debt).

 

[RoJoHen]

he's been making dam near 6 figures for as long as I can remember (and they still have craploads of debt).

Houses, cars (for themselves and for me and my siblings), lots of old debt, putting 3 kids through college (and now sending my sister to grad school), etc. Don't get me wrong, my parents have plenty of disposable income; they just also happen to have a lot of debt to go along with it.

It's mostly their kids' fault. Damn us. Oh, and the fact that for some reason my dad never makes any more than the minimum monthly payment on anything.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Don't get me wrong, my parents have plenty of disposable income; they just also happen to have a lot of debt to go along with it.

Again, .

 

[RoJoHen]

Dude, I dunno. I've never really delved too deep into their finances.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I just found it extremely weird. Didn't mean to pry.