Just applied for a job outside my current company of 18 years.

It's terrible, you will forever regret it! Stick with your current employer so you can keep showering us with the latest deals :cry:

Nah, fair play to you, onwards and upwards, best of luck.

No stories, i've been with the same employer for 30+ years.
 
I moved on about 4 years ago from my first job of 20 years. It was a huge decision to leave as I had worked my way up there and would be starting a completely new career path elsewhere.

The only thing I miss are the better pension and lots of little things like paid doctor/dentist appointments (now I have to make up the time).

It was a bit scary at the time but I feel a lot more confident in my abilities now. I was promoted to leader quite quickly (for being in a totally new role, lab based) but have since moved on to another company and am already being asked to take on more responsibility.

*Edit* that should have said 'promoted to team leader'
 
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Tricky. You might have to learn how a Firestick works. ;)

I made a big switch from a long term employer about 10 years ago.

Its hard to say if I'm now better off. Certainly financially I am due to a big pay rise on moving. However I had much more seniority and influence and the previous place - working directly for the CEO and having developed in the organisation during the technology revolution.

Now, despite earning more, I'm a lot more siloed in my role and doubt I'll ever get a chance to sit in any position of influence. Work life balance is better now though. Been WFH since 2016, and don't think I'd trade the hours commuting for what I have now.
 
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Don't worry about loyalty or job security or any of that nonsense, the truth of business is that no matter how chummy you are with your boss, if the financials turn bad, you'll still be made redundant without a care in the world.

Obviously you aren't completely happy where you are, otherwise you wouldn't be moving, so enjoy! I couldn't spent that long in one country, let alone one job :P
 
Honestly all joking aside, changing jobs can be one of the best things you can do. The beauty of this is that if you don't like the place you end up at, you simply cast again and land something else.

I've changed jobs / clients plenty of times and never regretted it. You'll likely get a bump in money too.

Good luck, hope it goes well!
 
I'm 41 and changed jobs a lot, my current job now is the longest one by double, and I been here heading towards 7 years.

I don't stay at jobs if they get too stressful or whatever life is too short. This current job I've got is boring as ****, but I get paid enough to live ok and I don't work very hard, at all so it suits me for now.

If it became a pain in the arse id just leave.
 
That being said 2 of them didn't work out.

One of them, it was a good company and would have been a good job otherwise, but my manager hated me. She was a bully and everyone hated her but she had power there. She even admitted she didn't have a problem with my work, but says she didn't like the way I came across, or how I sat in my chair ect. Anyway I left that one pretty quick and stitched her up to HR on my way out.

The other, was for done really ****** car insurance place, my god it was awful. But almost separate to that, although it still would have been ****, on my very first day, I came in and they said just sit down, Leanne will be a long in a bit. Set there, 30 minutes or whatever. Now keep in mind I don't know anyone, this girl bursts in, collapses on the floor in tears saying Leanne's just died. Everyone bursts into tears, about 30 minutes later in get sent home.

Anyway, turns out the girl who was supposed to be training me died in a car accident on her way to work that morning.

Pretty much sums that job up, again...I didn't stay long.
 
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BUDFORCE said:
The other, was for done really ****** car insurance place, my god it was awful. But almost separate to that, although it still would have been ****, on my very first day, I came in and they said just sit down, Leanne will be a long in a bit. Set there, 30 minutes or whatever. Now keep in mind I don't know anyone, this girl bursts in, collapses on the floor in tears saying Leanne's just died. Everyone bursts into tears, about 30 minutes later in get sent home.

Anyway, turns out the girl who was supposed to be training me died in a car accident on her way to work that morning.

Pretty much sums that job up, again...I didn't stay long.
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Rough!
 
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MissChief said:
Please regale me with tales of how things were much better after moving from a long term job or company.
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Moving should be the default for most - it's almost always better to move, at least early on in your career. In fact staying somewhere for 18 years is generally sub optimal (unless there's some exceptional circumstances like lots of promotions internally or an exceptionally good employer for that field).

But even if not moving earlet was sub optimal, moving now is still generally going to be the right call - you'll see how things are done elsewhere, you'll typically get a decent pay rise (often more so than you could hope for when staying within the same company save for promotions) and you'll often get to broaden your experience and get some career progression. And if your career was stagnating where you were previously (people in slots above you not moving anytime soon etc..) then you've got a fresh roll of the dice to try and jump up a level etc..

tl;dr - it's almost certainly a good move to move + if you're already a longstanding employee and you leave in good standing then you'll typically have a good chance of being able to get re-hired at the old place if the new place doens't work out.
 
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