Sticking with just my tech career, as before that wasn't a professional career. 1. Stumbled upon a dream job in the video game industry, couldn't pass it up, a

Sticking with just my tech career, as before that wasn't a professional career. 1. Stumbled upon a dream job in the video game industry, couldn't pass it up, and glad I didn't. I also was mainly just coasting at the previous job, nothing really needed there other than quickly resolve client requests when needed. I only really needed to work about 10 hours a week there. 2. (Next five jobs were either contractor gigs or I was laid off, so I didn't resign, but a couple I definitely should have). 3. Was there for 6 years, the team was a shell of what it used to be and was in keep the lights on mode at that point (went from a 40 person team down to a 5 person team, between layoffs and slow attrition), put up with way too much crap including them taking away benefits and bonus, a pittance of a raise for years, and didn't promote me even though I was doing my previous boss's job and then some after he left (and did so for about three years), but about half the time it wasn't too difficult or it was inconvenient to leave because of a busy personal life, and also the pandemic was right in the middle of that, so that made me hesitant to go somewhere else since it was already remote. What made me pull the trigger was constantly reading on here how white hot the tech industry was at the time, and just being sick of my situation. Got a new job with a 60% raise a month later. So yeah, definitely should have left sooner. 4. Still at my current job, been almost 2 and a half years, starting to get the itch to do other things, but there's a chance I might get promoted (have a couple people pushing for it), so I'm sticking it out a bit longer to see if that happens. Also the work I'm doing is much more current and high profile yet not too stressful, which lets me have some energy to focus on personal projects after work still, which is nice.