It's an adult approach to work. Like linkedin / Reid Hoffman's approach to career development: stop pretending you're joining a company for life; instead, treat employment as a tour of duty with limited duration. The company gets X from you, and you get Y from the company. At the end, you may or may not choose to re-up, with new goals for both sides.

ala https://hbr.org/2013/06/tours-of-duty-the-new-employer-emplo...