I love this comment by BubbaBrown on the original site:

Good flash. I heard all the same things when I quit my job. Still an unemployed computer scientist, but sometimes you just got to escape. A professor once told me to be wary of the "golden handcuffs" or getting too complacent and comfortable... I saw what he meant. Guys with 10+ years of industry experience sitting around doing nothing and incapable, after years of atrophy, of doing anything of importance, but still collecting a check. I had to leave. It's the worst time to do so, but you don't see the living dead, your future, and stick around. So, good luck on your future ventures.

Now I'm sitting in a customer's office and looking at my invisible but oh-so real golden handcuffs. Something to think about on the week-end...