How long have you been able to hold a job?

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I'm in at 2 years and counting.

I pretty much had a two year cycle (my shortest was 6 months) - always me quitting, no other reason for leaving. But I've been in my current job for 7 years and don't plan to quit. So 7 years and counting is my longest ...

Longest job was at Target, running the stockroom in the afternoon, that was 5 years. The only reason I stayed that long was because it was motivation for me getting my Chemical Engineering degree.

Second longest was running shows at a planetarium, that was for 3 years, and I loved every minute of it (shame I had to move to go to college).

Third was my last job, managing a lab on campus while I got my Master's degree, and that was 2.5 years.

I have never had a job (being an employee) in my life.

(I'm self-employed in a niche where AS is less of a problem)

I've been in my current job 15 years. That makes me feel miserable, because it's an "unskilled" physical job and it is slowly killing me from the inside. Hopefully the maths degree I'm doing will dig me out of the hole.

I've had two that each lasted 4-1/2 years. One was at PPG/Porter Paints as an inside sales rep and the other was The Home Depot as a kitchen/bath designer. I liked them both, overall. Porter downsized me (along with a bunch of other people) and I got railroaded and fired by a nasty, vindictive, judgemental store manager at THD. Basically, I was naive and walked right into a trap she set for me. In both cases, losing the job threw my life into complete turmoil.

I've had 3 jobs. Longest was 4 months, shortest was a week. All 3 were temp jobs, but I got fired from one.

All 3 were physical labor, which seems to be the only jobs I am able to get, and I was miserable at all 3. It's because of this that I haven't been looking for a new job for the past 8 months or so, lol.

I don't remember... since a young teen? Are we talking "any job" regularly or "the same job for 10+ years"?

Long time. "Unskilled" job or not, you must be pretty good at it after 15 years. The company still exists, you still have the job.. you must be doing something right.