While I completely agree that change is good, and flexibility, company culture and life balance are incredibly important, the reason I left my job in October wa

While I completely agree that change is good, and flexibility, company culture and life balance are incredibly important, the reason I left my job in October was compensation. I started at that project as a freelancer, but the client had a hard rule that they couldn't hire freelancers for more than two years (because the tax service might consider them employees instead), and after two years I wasn't ready to leave, so I became an employee. I knew I had to take a pay cut for that, but the pay cut turned out to be much, much larger tan I expected. That simply made it a temporary thing. I don't regret continuing that project for another year, and I did try to negotiate better salary that might allow me to stay longer, but when that turned out to be impossible, I left. I'm freelancing again.