And how long have you been with the company? Have you ever been promoted and/or changed departments? Elaboration also appreciated unless, of course, you don't want to.

I'll start. I work for Crossmark, which is a marketing company contracted by Sam's Club to distribute samples. I started in February 2012 and stayed until May 2015. I returned in April 2016 so to total it up, January will be my 5 year anniversary.

When I returned in April 2016, I was distributing samples at Walmart which also contracted with the company. I went back to Sam's Club 3 months ago when Walmart ended our contract in favor of our competitor.

And at every job I've ever had, including this one, I've never been promoted, but I have changed departments.

[divine1966]

I teach high school so I work for public school district, 12 years in my current one. Prior to that I was for 2 years elsewhere. Before that I taught 5 years somewhere else again . Changed jobs due to relocation. I was also a schoolparaprofessional for 5 years total in between teaching jobs. Again due to relocation. So 24 years in education, 19 specifically teaching.

No promotions. Not in my line of work.

In Addition to teaching I often worked random jobs to supplement my income as we took pay cuts and had pay freezes in my school district. Currently my extra job is in retail. Around 2-3 evenings a week. It’s been two years. It’s mindless and undemanding but gets tiring. It’s a little part time job so no promotions. They want me to work more but I can’t and won’t. I wish I can stop working two jobs but we didn’t have raise for 8 years. Education sucks in my state

[seesaw]

Ruby, I can't say who I currently or previously worked for as I don't want it to come up in searches and be tracked back to me. I also don't like to give out that much personal information, as you could use that information to search LinkedIn, for example, and find personal information on me.

But I can answer other parts of your question. I work in the field of nonprofit development and fundraising. I have worked for national, international, and regional arts organizations, some very prominent and recognizable in the world.

At one employer, I was promoted twice in my time being there. At other employers, there was no room for advancement, so I left to go to other companies to move up. I have never changed departments though, but my field is very specific. The longest I'd been at one company was 7 years, but that was a part-time spring/summer job that I did in addition to my full-time work. They invited me back every year until I moved out of state. Otherwise my longest term at a job was 5 years. At my most recent full-time job, I was there 18 months until I was laid off. When I left my job that I'd been at 5 years, it was to take a position building a development program at a national organization and it was this big adventure. I'd still be at that organization if my depression and PTSD hadn't gotten so severe that I had to take time off and eventually resign. I just felt like I was becoming an encumbrance to them and not being able to do the work at my best, so I resigned and went on disability for a while, until I got better through treatment and then went back to work, stupidly, at the most toxic place I'd ever been. I'm surprised I made it even 18 months there before they laid me off. I'm glad to be gone but I'm pissed as hell at the treatment I got while I was there. But I try not to dwell on it...they are making plenty of mistakes (I still have friends who work there) and reaping a lot of what they sowed. It's like I don't need to wish them ill luck, because they make enough of it for themselves.

Right now I'm on SSDI again and also working part-time as a consultant. I have been applying for full-time work because I do feel that the routine is good for me, but I haven't found the right position yet. I'm up for a position with the local university, and I made it to the top 3, and I'm just waiting to hear what their final decision is. I really hope I get it because it's a great job and a great environment to work in. And the benefits are great.

Seesaw

[reb569]

I work for a medium sized corporation that is a financial institution in the Marketing Division. I've worked there nearly 13 years and am planning on at least 12 more years before I retire.

I started as an Administrative Assistant and in addition to normal Admin Assistant duties, handled invoicing, helped the Division Director handle our budget, processed sponsorship and donation requests and assisted with advertising requests.

After I had been there 3 years, a position opened up for Marketing Specialist. The primary role of this position was Merchandising for our offices (we have over 100 locations), however, filling my old position was delayed so I ended up doing both jobs for over a year. Once the admin job was filled, I trained my replacement, and took the budget role with me. A couple years later, our website was redesigned using a Content Management System, and our Division took over responsibility for updates. Because I had experience with web design as a freelancer, I took the lead role for updates and new content creation, as well as monitoring our Google Analytics account.

In December of 2014, it was announced that I was being promoted to Marketing Analyst in order to better reflect the work that I was actually doing with the Website and analytics. Merchandising responsibilities were transferred over to another co-worker. Unfortunately, it took over a year for the actual promotion to go through, in the meantime, I trained my co-worker on the merchandising, and took a larger role in managing our website.

At the beginning of this year my budget responsibilities were transferred over to the co-worker who I trained in the Admin Assistant role and I do mainly website development, email campaigns, google analytics, Web Accessibility and soon Search Engine Optimization and more in-depth data analytics. I work closely with our systems division on web development projects. I handle the front end, they (2 systems workers) handle the back end. Starting in 2015 we did a major, year long plus, redesign of our website into a new CMS and I was the Marketing Lead on the project. Currently my job description is being re-written to better reflect what I'm doing, although it is not a promotion.

Despite all that, I am, for the most part just a worker bee. I'm non-exempt and non-titled and have no supervisory responsibility. I've always kind of been a team of one. I am a team player, help out co-workers any time they need it, but I have no fully capable back up in the Marketing Division. The two systems workers are the only ones that can fully complete website projects if I'm out of office.

Other jobs I've worked range from cashiering, farm hand, manufacturing, day care, school age child care program lead, clerical team lead in an insurance company and office manager in a small business. Prior to all that, I was a mechanic in the USAF.