On average how long do you work for a company before you move on to something else?

I just had my 20th anniversary a few months ago. I plan to retire here.

I've been with the same company almost 20 years but I've been in different positions.

Transitioning from military service to civilian life is hell everywhere

This year I have worked for the same organisation for 44 years lol

I'm 35+ yrs and counting in my various roles with this company ..

Depends on the jobs available. Stuck it out with one company for 12 years with 4 different job roles during that time. But 3-4 years with one company was more typical.

I averaged two years each for my first three jobs. The next one lasted 18 years and the last one was 14 years. Keep looking, and maybe you will find the right one.

19 years with the same company.

I might move to a less stressful job in a couple of years , once mortgage is paid off and son starts to work full time after studies.

After a year I've usually maxed out learning everything I can and getting really good. Then I get bored.

I usually stay until I can no longer climb the ladder.

I had lots of jobs, many for one day or even less. I stayed for 12 years at two jobs, one in a restaurant and the other in retail. Neither even pretended to pay a livable wage but I didn't have to get up early and they left me alone to do what I was supposed to do. My interests were always somewhere else.

I think that happens a lot with the forces, where were you based.

What are you looking for? My friend was a paramedic in the army and worked many jobs when he left and now does private security

65 years this may

It depends on the era you were raised in. If you are 65 years old, you came from a family who's parents were raised during the Great Depression. Holding down a full time job until you got taken out of the place in a casket was the mentality that was encouraged by post-depression era parents.

I feel genuinely sorry for people who hang around a job for 40 years until everyone they've ever worked with is either dead or is already retired. Show me a guy who's been employed with the same company for 40+ years and I'll show you a guy who either doesn't have a life outside his job, is working on his 3rd wife and two sets of alimony payments or has made some severely bad financial decisions in his life. Nobody otherwise hangs around for 40+ years unless they're collecting service pins for their baseball cap which they wear everywhere they go.

How long you work for a company before you move on has more to do with why you joined that company in the first place, than it does about the length of time you are there. Truth is, it's totally irrelevant how many annual service pins you have neatly lined up along the brim of your hat because nobody actually gives a sh*t about them except the guy's ego who's wearing the hat!

I see from your profile that you were an RAF Mechanic. Rather than focus your attention on how long you should stay at a job in the private sector, perhaps you should focus your attention on finding a place to work where you can impart your aviation mechanical skill you acquired along the way, to those who'd otherwise be trained by people who know less about being an AME than you do?

As soon as more pay or less work for the same pay comes along. Staying at the same place doesn't offer the same that used to.