“not stuck in a job longer than 5 years”
And I think even that exceeds the average in the US these recent years. The problem the woman writes about is unique. I cannot believe somebody could do the same job next to the same guy in the same office for TWENTY years. Neither of them got a new job or promotion in all that time? Hard to believe.
The lesson here is to NOT do that in your career.
I spent five years at my first job, but it was all field service engineering, so didn’t have the chance to make any real friendships. Then 20 years at a company in two different divisions.
Then closed out with one more five year job and a series of five or six 2-year jobs including a couple years of consulting.
So I never faced the problem this woman has.
It may have been a clerical job I guess. My mum was in the same banking role for 30 odd years until the late 90s