I am in the process of leaving an excellent job. I am well paid. The work is very enjoyable and meaningful. The people I work with are excellent. My team and I

I am in the process of leaving an excellent job. I am well paid. The work is very enjoyable and meaningful. The people I work with are excellent. My team and I have huge freedom to innovate. The company is stable. I do not have to work huge hours. The work my team and I do on a daily basis is highly regarded. Why am I leaving? When I arrived, in 2009, I decided that I was not going to work anywhere more than 3-5 years, simply because I had worked in my previous company for 12 years, and it took me 'too long' to shake free of that. That's the discipline that I am working through right now. Everyone around me has known from the beginning about that arbitrary time-limit. They know I'm actively looking. They know that I'll continue to be exceptionally transparent about the entire process. Honestly, I've been very happy with this process. People know where I stand, and that reduces anxiety. I've been paying down technical debt with a pure passion for the past few months, which would probably not have been possible without as much communication. I'm probably going to end up getting an additional pay raise when I leave, which is fine, and I'm happy to get it. But it's not why I'm leaving. I'm leaving because, for me, it's time. :)