Yeah, I took a huge pay cut for what I thought was stability with an 85 yr old company. You have to hire on to learn the real deal. Turns out they are having trouble managing the changing workforce and shifting market conditions.
Everyone crooned on and on about all the "boomerang" employees and long tenures during interviews. I realized after joining that the employees were coming back after being laid off!! WTF!?
They were absolutely over the moon to get me and have been blown away by my work and are remodeling a new office for me and queuing me up for bigger projects but I can't leave my eggs in this basket. This will be my shortest tenure ever at under a year.
An old CIO friend is creating a new Principal Architect role for me now at another company. I will dive into that startup for 3-5 years until it is acquired.
Too be fair the last 3 startups I worked at failed financially but still.
I would love to go work somewhere for 5-10 years. It's just hard to find these days.