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God I hate these guys who hop from one to the other job every few years. It's always the guys who talk big, and when they can't deliver (mostly because their "great" ideas will break something else) quickly leave "because this company is too much set in it's ways".
if you're not changing jobs at least every 5 years you're letting yourself get exploited, unless you work at a VERY well unionized place or at something like a worker co-op
This seems like a very U.S. centric view. I live in the Netherlands, most places here are unionized. And ofcourse it doesn't hurt to change jobs every now and then, and I would never stay in a job at a place I don't like working for. But I also wouldn't change jobs just to get a raise, because I would get the raise regardless. Reasons I have quit jobs in the past were 1. a company keeping me working through an agency, 2 an emerging toxic culture, 3. Company got sold and went from being innovative to a cash cow, changing my job from engineering to an administrative position.