Your shortest and longest jobs post training

[resident_1]

Curious to see what your (a) shortest and (b) longest jobs have been in terms of years of work.
What were circumstances behind the duration?

[VagabondMD]

My current job has lasted 20.5 years, except for a 5 month period that I quit my job to take another job, sold my house, moved across the country, bought and remodeled another house, quit the new job, sold that house, lived with my inlaws, took a trip to Jamaica, returned to my current job, bought a house and then, 6 weeks later, adopted my son. It was a busy time!

[Hatton]

My current job has lasted 24 years.  Shortest job 4.5 years.

[PhysicianOnFIRE]

My last day of residency was Friday, June 30th.

I started my first job, a 5-day locums opportunity on Monday, July 3rd. That was my shortest job - 5 days.

My longest job was a locums job that I returned to as a permanent doc. Altogether, it was about 4 years and ended as the hospital was descending into bankruptcy. Next year, my current job will be my longest job, but I've only been here about 3 years now.

 

[Hatton]

Oh I forgot my second job which lasted 11 months.  The group imploded and then I started my own practice.

[The White Coat Investor]

I've been lucky so far. Not counting moonlighting type stuff my shortest job was residency- 3 years. Then military- 4 years. Then my current group- 7 years. Hopefully that is my last job.

[uptoolate]

Residency 5 years. Fellowship 2 years. First academic job 10 years. Second academic job 3 years. Private practice with university appointments 10 years. Retirement going on 3 years. Ten weeks of locum work at the request of an old friend during retirement.

[HLM]

My first job out of residency was a clinic job and I stayed for 1.5 years and felt restless with the job and the city we were living in so we moved.

Second job was a much better fit. I became a hospitalist and worked for 3.5 years at that job and then left when I found a job at a hospital with teaching opportunities with residents and medical students and a more complex patient population. Still at that job over 8 years.

[adventure]

uptoolate wrote:

Residency 5 years. Fellowship 2 years. First academic job 10 years. Second academic job 3 years. Private practice with university appointments 10 years. Retirement going on 3 years. Ten weeks of locum work at the request of an old friend during retirement.

Would you ever consider another stint in retirement, or are you content?

[Antares]

Longest job: the last 24 years in private practice

[YSH]

Shortest post residency position: 11 months (2nd job as attending). I moved twice in the span of 48 months due to spouse's career endeavors.

Longest post residency position: current, 4.5 years.

Graduated in 2008.

Tricky thing for my situation is spouse's career and advancement is best leveraged by willingness to "explore new companies".  I pray for the day this wanderlust will simmer down, but I understand that this is important to my partner.  I do believe, however, that our relocation has opened up opportunities for me that otherwise wouldn't have been available had I just hunkered down at one position since graduation.

[Kamban]

Shortest: 1 day - 1 week locums while working in England in the NHS

Longest: 17 years in my current self employed practice.

[uptoolate]

One never knows.  Six months into retirement I was having lunch with an old work colleague and he asked me if I could see myself coming back under any circumstances and I told him that I couldn't see any but nothing is impossible.  Two days later the phone rang and it was a long time friend and colleague half way across the country that was in a jam for manpower. So there you go, someone I had known for 25 years asking a favour.  Our sub-specialty is pretty tight as far as manpower goes so I agreed and wound up doing a week or two here and there over the next year. It was actually alot of fun and met some really good people and lived in a part of the country I had not seen before. I have also done some work in Africa while retired which is very satisfying.  But barring a total economic collapse and/or descent into the chaos of the zombie apocalypse, I can't see myself picking up a scalp or even doing clinics for a regular paycheque again. And if the zombie apocalypse comes then I guess I will be getting paid in chickens anyway and not likely regularly...

 

(Sorry this was meant to be a reply to a question above re: going back to work but wound up in a new window)

[Kamban]

uptoolate wrote:

I can’t see myself picking up a scalp or even doing clinics for a regular paycheque again. And if the zombie apocalypse comes then I guess I will be getting paid in chickens anyway and not likely regularly…

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I think you might have meant a scalpel but then who knows if you are into scalping  :P

[EJ at Dads Dollars and Debts]

I am more impressed you bought and remodeled a house in 5 months....

 

May I ask what was wrong with the second job?

 

I had a job for approximately 4 years before moving to my new one. Loved my old staff and colleagues, but moved for family. Maybe one day I will do a Vagabond move and go back. For now I have been at the new job for 8 months and in our new house for 2 months....so I guess my transition won't be as quick.