>> 3. How do avoid being in the same position a year later? Seems to me the wrong question to be asking. Being in the position where you need to "challenge y

>> 3. How do avoid being in the same position a year later? Seems to me the wrong question to be asking. Being in the position where you need to "challenge yourself" (and leaving is one way to do so), shouldn't be a problem, it's just something you need to notice and resolve. As for the other questions, they are great questions, but you'll only ever find ancedotal answers. The serendipity of how you found the next thing and what it was are the rewards for taking the risk. I usually find the story of how companies or people made themselves far more interesting than what they became.