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Quite a journey:

Experience

JetBrains

22 yrs 4 mos

Chief Executive Officer

Full-time

Jul 2012 - Jan 2024 · 11 yrs 7 mos

team lead

Jul 2004 - Jun 2012 · 8 yrs

Software Engineer

Oct 2001 - Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 10 mos

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I will never understand those who can stay at the same place for more than 5 years, it’s a wasted life, doing the same thing, same people, same city

Maybe they have a job they genuinely like?

Didn’t say it’s wrong, said I don’t get them, I don’t get being identified with a job either, are choices, point of views, I relocated to live in 5 different cities in the same time span, met many different people, for me that counts, job is job

If job is job then you might as well stay at one

Finding one that would allow me to move around yeah

People are different.

You like to move place to place and meet people. Some like to stay in one place, meet people occasionaly and spend more time with their family, hobby (sometimes you can't really take your hobby with you), camp in the wild with your dog etc.

You don't have to identify with your job, maybe just kinda like it. Also, making new friends gets harder at a certain age. It works but it doesn't feel the same as having a friend you know since high school or college.

Also making your family, esp kids move every few years sucks really hard for them, never being able to build their circle of friends.

Not everybody wants to go through life as a tourist.

>Didn’t say it’s wrong

No, just that "it’s a wasted life".

>I relocated to live in 5 different cities in the same time span, met many different people, for me that counts

And for others having roots, and not just meeting different people like a tourist only to dispose and move on in a few years, but building deep relations with people, is what counts.

To be frank, it sounds like novelty seeking to avoid deeper commitments and more substantial development. Of course if one is young (say <= 30) it can also be fun.

That’s right, being a CEO is exactly the same as being a software engineer. /s

Perhaps they believed and had passion for the vision. Then why would you leave?

What is to be gained being a nomad exactly? The world around you is made of those, largely, not living on the run.

It's not being a nomad, it's getting new challenges, learning new things, discovering new environments and contexts, new people, new ways of doing things, ... there is much to gain by getting out from time to time

Fully agree

Jetbrains was 7 people when he joined, it's now over 1,800...

...Doubt it was a dull 22 years.

The higher up I’ve gotten the less routine the days are.

I also tend to have more control over my schedule. That makes it easy to shift days around to feel different.

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