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Forogar wrote: I wonder which of you has the longest time at one job?
Eh, define "one job". The longest time I spent without giving a resignation note was 7 years, but during that time the company was sold three times and I moved twice between different offices, so I am not sure you could call it the same job.
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During my 6+ years at one particular company they underwent seven "re-organizations" - which involved a change of manager, title and/or office - but basically the same job otherwise. I even ended up reporting to myself on a short-lived organization chart!
In the modern offices we had the walls and doors were all movable metal panels off either side of a fixed central corridor - four floors in the building, all the same. One office move my desk didn't move, they just moved the wall from behind me to in front of me - and didn't understand when I wanted to rotate said desk 180 degrees!
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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longest I have had is 5 years, but the current one is 3 1/2 years at the moment.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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17 years under various guises - started as a government department, which was then privatised and bought out/merged twice more before I left.
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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I will be coming up to 24 years service this year. Been in the same employment since I was 16!
How time has flown by! 
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I have been at my current job for 22 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
One of the OS-es that came with a huge manual; you could not only kill flies with it, it was big enough to squat small rodents.
Aah, I don't miss programming DBaseIV.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When I started here, my development machine was a 12 MHz AT class box with 1MB of RAM running MS-DOS 5.
Mine was a PDP-11 with 16K (bytes/8K words) core memory running corporate OS. Later upgraded to 1MB semiconductor memory. When they became obsolete, they let me take two of them home. I wrote my own operating system in machine code (not assembler, machine code), stored in the core memory. I used to have them until late 1997.
I still have 8 or 9 of the H214 core memory boards.
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Harvey
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One of my favorite classes in college (Wright State University, 1979-1984, go Raiders!) used a lab with two PDP-11/05's. They had core memory for the RT-11 bootstrap, which was 88 words of code. The core wasn't write-protected, so the bootstrap machine code was on a piece of paper taped to the front of the machine. Everyone had to fat-finger the bootstrap in at least once. One guy was notorious for having done it so often, he could input the bootstrap via the front-panel switches in under 60 seconds.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: They had core memory for the RT-11 bootstrap, which was 88 words of code.
Yeah, my boot code was 2 16 bit words, and about half of the bits were the same in both words. Pain in the butt but I could do it on mine in about 5 seconds.
I had a lot of fun with those machines. Sniff. I gave them up too soon.
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Harvey
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6 years at the last place was the longest, but previously worked 5 years as an employee then 6 more as a contractor for the same company. Does that really count as 11 years for the same company, especially since i contracted for other companies at the same time and ran my own business?
SS => Qualified in Submarines
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill
"Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown
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Make this a Survey!
I am at 11 years, 11 months and hoping to make it to 12 years, but things are looking bleak at the moment.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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34 years 8 months 16 days (since June 12, 1978)
With enough interesting work (and good people) to still be here!
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Matt T Heffron wrote: 34 years 8 months 16 days (since June 12, 1978)
I doff my hat to you. I think you are the winner (and beat me by 3 years)!
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Harvey
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You've got me beat by 11 years and some. You sir, are a geezer  !
Software Zen: delete this;
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One job for 14.5 years, and another for almost 10. A 3-year job, some short contracts and 6 years at current place
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20 months & this is also my 1st job...
Piyush K Singh
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After I finished uni 3 years ago, got a job and been here since.
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5 years in my last job, and just passed the 5 year mark with my current employer
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
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Forogar wrote: Most places it is around 18 months - which I understand is the industry average right now.
The average length of a penis is supposed to be six inches.
The Mrs is glad I ignored that fact.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The Mrs is glad I ignored that fact.
I'm guessing you are glad that she ignored it too.
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Harvey
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12 years, I've had 2 real jobs and the first one was 3 years and then I jumped ship when they decided to move from C++ & .NET to Java and Php. And no, I'm not trying to start an infected debate over platforms, just saying that I'm a C++ and .NET guy, not Java or PHP. 
Wexelblats algorithm:
Pick two: 1. Good, 2. Fast, 3. Cheap
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5 years at my current gig.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chinese Proverb]
Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
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