I'm genuinely curious, what do you think you experience in 10+ years that you wouldn't in 2-3 years? I spent three years working post acquisition. I experienc

I'm genuinely curious, what do you think you experience in 10+ years that you wouldn't in 2-3 years? I spent three years working post acquisition. I experienced an up cycle (we were making so much $ that budgeting went out the window and we could spend/hire without restraint) and a down cycle (multiple rounds of layoffs, C level firings, hard resetting of public market expectations and a deep restructuring of parts of the business). I managed a team of about 30 people through this. Almost everybody seemed to be comfortably settled in to their jobs. Bad times were more stressful than good times, of course, but apart from these external factors impacting the business, it was a pretty monotonous routine month after month. The status quo is powerful and acts as a headwind against anyone making much radical change, while the business coasts along on whatever its core legacy income streams are. You try to make cautious, incremental improvements to those income streams without jeopardizing anything. The very senior employees (SVP and C level) seemed to have the least stability and most career anxiety, and entry levelers had that first time in the foxhole look on their faces for the first few months, but in the middle ranks, it was pretty much good natured cruise control. If I had stayed 10+ years I imagine it would have just been more up cycles, more down cycles, but mostly the same routine.