This seems like something that depends a lot on (a) your happiness at your current job and (b) your current compensation. I'm a month shy of four years at my cu

This seems like something that depends a lot on (a) your happiness at your current job and (b) your current compensation. I'm a month shy of four years at my current employer, I like the job in general, and I am being paid well above what seems to be market rate for technical writers, even in Silicon Valley. Yes, I've tested that theory; I've talked to a few pretty big companies with good compensation packages and it turns out that the highest amount they're looking to pay would still be a drop for me. So I don't have a lot of motivation to be looking for work elsewhere right now. I don't doubt that engineers can hop from job to job making tremendous increases these days, although that wasn't my experience when I was a web developer in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I generally did get an increase, but it was not like "woo my salary doubles every time a recruiter sneezes on it," which is kind of the vibe HN has given off for the last five years or so. I'm not convinced that's a sustainable model for the industry long-term, though.