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My advice to you, infant  , is to remember the adage: old age and treachery always overcome youth and skill. The key for you as a youth is watch your elders and learn the treachery  !
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've been at my current company a grand total of 9 years now and have switched internal teams 3 times during this span.
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where is the Option "too many years"?
I switched from the preivous one after almost three years.
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Started this up 12 years ago in 2003. The pay is less, but I don't have to travel a lot like before. And the overhead is much less than my previous business.
Got another 15 years to go to keep saving and investing for retirement.
I keep thinking about moving to Texas, but I'm stuck here in California.
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I've been at my current employer for over 10 years, but before that I was a consultant who couldn't stay put in one place. That lifestyle hasn't left me as I have transferred 3 times now. Unfortunately, I am ready to move again, but there is nowhere to go and if I stay patient a pension awaits me down the road.
I ponder everyday what to do next!
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I was at my previous job for a bit over four years (then again, that's also the company where I started out and learned programming).
Two people there had been with the company since the beginning, about 14 years (one is now co-owner).
This week we'll have a party for two colleagues who are with my current company for 12 and a half and 5 years. The 5 year guy is 29 years old, so...
That's nothing, some guys have been with the company since it started out 27 years ago 
I don't think I'd ever want to work for the same company for so many years (unless it's my own)! But I'm still young and full of spirit (let's see where I am in 20 years)
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...time to look for a new job before I grow roots and/or turn to dust!!! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Not cameras please...
I meant to say that I am not at a developer job, but I do make software and sell them to other people or develop software for them (freelancer perhaps?). A self-sustaining developer with more experience than others in my area and around. So, I was not sure whether to count years to just reply, "I am not at a developer job".
Perhaps if I were to chose years (for freelancing and software development for money), it would be more than 1 year.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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But I wokred also in other jobs durint that 18 years - paralelly...Just picked up interesting things on the way...Not all of them software related...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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... how long do you stay in a developer job on average. Most of the time I prefer to stay several years, but since I recently joined my current company my answer is a bit skewed in terms of my norm.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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I agree. I have less than two years at my current employer, but 12 years at my previous employer.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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The is rising with the age. In young years I liked to switch, but now I am stuck in a "Golden cage"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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yep, 14 years at my last employer, only 3 months at my new one.
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That would be very skew indeed.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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