A corollary to all of this is how self inflicted it all is. I left my last job, because I was bored, we were on autopilot as a company, and I had completely ma

A corollary to all of this is how self inflicted it all is. I left my last job, because I was bored, we were on autopilot as a company, and I had completely mastered our architecture and system. Any assignment I received was trivial to complete. In most ancient societies accomplishing a feat like this would result in not having to do as much work and to supervise others doing it while I take it easy and explore my own interests. While I do think many employers would never do this, as I was exiting the company I discovered, through conversations with my CEO and CTO, that a version of this was more readily available for me than I realized, and I could have done more to take advantage of it. When I reach such a position of trust and respect of my executives again I will definitely leverage it more than I did at my last job. I suspect a lot of professionals fail to do the same.