Yeah I have the same experience, arriving to a place with old habits, but not the same I saw the job before, bringing "new" ideas to the new place, blowing thei

Yeah I have the same experience, arriving to a place with old habits, but not the same I saw the job before, bringing "new" ideas to the new place, blowing their mind, moving on and redoing. It's almost as if I feel my role is more about changing constantly and "advising" like a consultant, which I usually despise, than staying 10 years maintaining an old rotting software. There's definitely value in rotation, and my newest company, a 150 yo venerable institution, is amazed at what one can bring from small startups. They have had me rotate from team to team to "bring the mojo" since I started, where usually you pop a profiler, show that that's not how you use a hashmap, and save a few millions here and there for the users / clients... Now I'm the profiler guy, something I learned to do in my previous company to fix a few mem leaks... And each job was like that, they never let me dust in a team doing ticket after ticket in soul sucking sprints :D Are you someone maybe who like to give smartass-like suggestions on absolutely everything until someone let you try ?