The story about monkeys shifted all the time between groups, and the status-seeking ones being most stressed, made me think about my experience changing teams/j

The story about monkeys shifted all the time between groups, and the status-seeking ones being most stressed, made me think about my experience changing teams/jobs. I'm generally not a status seeking person, I don't care about promotions etc. as long as job/team/pay is good. I consider myself ok programmer but not top one. When I join a new team, I don't want status per se, but I want people to know that I don't suck. Which is in fact status seeking. Typically first year in a new team is kinda exhausting each time due to ramping up a lot of new knowledge and trying to prove my value. (That's why I try to only change ~every 3 years; to have enough breathing room, but when I get tired of a project, I need to change).