Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
5 years ago
I guess this is about me.
I spent nearly 27 years at my last job. I must be terrible.
I ran a small, high-functioning team of engineers with over 30 years' experience each, writing advanced image processing pipelines in C++.
When our team was finally disbanded, the person in my team with the least tenure was ten years.
Nowadays, I am "refactoring" myself back to being a full-time coder (as opposed to a manager and part-time coder), and, most likely, a teacher and author.
I'm much more junior that you, but I don't think it necessarily makes someone a "chump" to work at the same company for so long. it might not be what you would do if you optimize solely for lifetime earnings, but there's more to life than that. sounds like the people on your team found a job where they did interesting work with a manager / team lead they respected. I wouldn't be in a hurry to leave that either.