On average how long do you work for a company before you move on to something else?
I left the RAF in early 2018 but I just can’t seem to settle and after two different jobs in 6 years I’m now looking for something else.
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swirlie · 31-35, F
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?
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?