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Length of time at your current employer

How long have you worked for your current employer?

At what point, do you start getting the itch for something new/different?

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Re: Length of time at your current employer

  • 2.5 years.

    Right now. lol.

  • I have worked at my current employer for 6.5 years. I changed jobs within the company about 1y2m after I started and have been in that group ever since. I have worked my way up so it's not boring but I am getting tired of the company. I am guessing 7 years might be my limit.
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  • I've been here 8 months. I knew right when I started it wasn't right. I tried to hold off a year but am job hunting now.
  • 4 years.

    Had the itch. Years ago. Should have seriously taken care of it back then.

  • 4 years but I've had 3 jobs within :)

    I get the itch, but I'm really happy where I am at the moment. All my moves have been strategic up the chain.

  • Almost 4 years.

    Have a tickle and exploring options that seek me out, but not pursuing anything.  I have it pretty good where I am currently, but I don't see room for advancement here.

     

  • Two years.  I started working from home a few weeks ago, which is the biggest change I've had.  I wish I would go back to working on site, but we moved for DH's job, and we're not to far away for me to commute.  No itch to leave.
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  • This is my tenth year in my job.  The only reason I think about leaving is to have a shorter commute, this job is a pretty good fit for me.

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  • I get the itch at two years, I fought it and last three years at my last job mostly because I didn't want my resume to show this pattern. I'm really liking my new job and hope I can beat the itch and stay here long term.
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  • I freelance with my employer where I worked FT. I worked at one site for 2.5 years, was switched to another site for 6 months, then got a promotion but stayed at that site for 2 years. I've freelanced with them for about a year.

    The only itch I got was to gun for the promotion. I could have stayed there quite happily for a while. I really liked my job.

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  • A year. It's my first "real" job out of college. I'd like to find a job using my degree, but right now I'm content.

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  • 4 days...lol.  I really, really love it so far.

    I was at my previous job for 1 month (Embarrassed), but it was only PT, so when this FT opportunity popped up I couldn't turn it down. 

  • 2 years.

    Itch began seriously about 9 months ago.

  • 9 months, depends usually after 2 years.
  • This is year 3.  But I changed jobs with them last month.
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  • I've been here since August 2008.

    I started job searching about a year in--once my job changed from what I was hired to do (wanted to do) to a lot of other stuff. I've been job searching ever since.

     

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  • It will be 6 years in October. I don't really have the itch to do something different but I am looking for a new job since my company's been acquired and my department will be losing our jobs in the next few months.

    I prefer to leave on my terms so am looking now. Besides, the environment gets super depressing during times like this and it gets unhealthy after a while.

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  • Almost 7 years, officially. But even before that I was working "under the table", so to speak, for years. I love this job and I will never leave.
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  • 2.5 months (I really like it so far and don't picture myself leaving for a very long time). I was at my last job about 1.5 years and got the "itch" after about 9 months - but it was mostly because of a toxic work environment.
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  • 2 weeks

    Hopefully not for a few years. At my last job it I got the itch after 3 months ( wasn't a good fit). I ended up staying for 7 more months but I was on FMLA/Medical leave for 2 of those.

    Prior to that about 18 months. 

  • 6 years and now!

    i'm in the leadership program and hopefully that will broaden my horizons.

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  • 12 years for me and I've had the itch for a long time, but am scared to. I guess it would be like trying to date again. However, I am moving out of state in a few months and will be forced to get out there and "date" again.
  • i just started my 11th year.  i have no itch; never did.  i hope to retire from here. :)
  • 1 year. I had the itch at about month 2. however, I am currently a surgical nurse, and my passion is women's services (l&d, postpartum, gynecological surgery). I knew going into this job that I was going to get my med-surg experience and get out asap. the time is ripe right now.
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  • I've been with the same company for 4 1/2 years -- but I've had different roles within that time frame.  I'm leaving next week for a new position outside of the industry, but I've had the itch for something new for about a year now!
  • 2 months. I don't have a limit where I get an itch. I only switch if we move. I would also switch if I was miserable. But I'd love to be a lifer. I'm not someone who needs to move around companies every few years for the heck of it.
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