[MidnightRaver]

- left for a 2.5x salary bump after 1.5 years

- that place ran out of money after 1.5 years

- back at the original place, but got bored after 6 years

- let a recruiter talk me into a potentially more interesting place even if it paid less, left before hitting the 4-month mark for 2x more money

- left after 2+ years because the boss was a ginormous asshole and I was colleagues with Hamas (UN)

I regret step 3. As I was leaving there, a colleague asked me, bewildered: "why don't you just do side projects if everything's so easy and you're so bored?" And he was fucking right. I'd be done with work by noon Tuesday and then go tinker on some open source thing on Github or write on Medium or saw stuff at the country place. And so much more money would roll right in every year.