Longest time unemployed

What was the longest time you ever spend without a job, I mean once you hit working age.
For me it was 5 years on unemployment, no matter what I did I just couldn't find a darn job.

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DDonde · 31-35, M

I was never on unemployment but over a year or so after I quit my white-collar programming job in 2017. I had a lot of money saved up from it and I didn't have much in the way of expenses, so it lasted a while. I also had a very different mindset towards what I was willing to accept taking on as work back then. I had a degree in Computer Science so I felt like that should mean I should get a suitable white-collar job replacement for my programming job somewhere, but it never materialized. Eventually gave up and did manual labor for a while, once I was actually able to get hired on for it.