The old fashioned advice was to do this, at a company that paid you for long service. Those days are mostly dead. While you might pause for fear of burning yo

The old fashioned advice was to do this, at a company that paid you for long service. Those days are mostly dead. While you might pause for fear of burning your bridges by leaving a project in the lurch, staying at a company for over 2-3 years is not the way forward in a career anymore - and that is very much the common advice and wisdom nowadays. This isn't because young people want to, this is because you tend to get huge jumps in wage jumping between companies, while simultaneously HR seems to be allergic to giving good raises.