Title: Over my whole career I can see a pattern.<p>Typically, I work for an employer for around 3 to 5 years. At the start of each employment I make several successful leaps, often designing and building new systems (usually single handedly). I am rewarded with various pay rises, bonuses and promotions. Then around the halfway mark or later, things sour for a variety of different reasons. Typically, I will fall out with someone senior, like my line manager. It&#x27;s normally over something mundane but definitely technical.<p>In each cycle I try resolving things in different ways but each time I fail; then I desperately try finding a new role with the knowledge that the whole process might repeat itself.<p>I can recall the various reasons the fallouts occured, e.g. frustrated by a boss&#x27;s crony cancelling 3rd party supplier contracts (which I had to grovel to reinstate), having differing views about testing&#x2F;automation (I am fond of both), how workloads should be spread more fairly, etc. There are many different reasons.<p>In the more recent cycles I just end up being entirely unproductive at the end.<p>Is it just me?
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