Before you beat yourself up for feeling like moving on in your career every couple years, take stock of whether you are a 'builder' or a 'maintainer'. By that I mean, some guys like to sit in the planning room, some just want to be called in once the thing's been built.
There are strategic thinkers, builders, tearer-downers, problem solvers, and guys who just run the machines.
Those are all Godly characteristics. We gotta know ourselves in this way, or we're open to all sorts of accusation from the darkness.
I used to work at a company that owned a vacuum cleaner manufacturer. I heard about a problem that they had with consumers who would buy a vacuum in a box, take it home, get frustrated trying to put it together, and would end up returning the whole thing. A huge percent of units were returned. Anyway, I really wanted to create a task force that would tackle that problem and solve it. It would have saved the company millions of dollars. Capture the data, analyze it, form a strategy, get a budget, and go after it.
The last thing I wanted was to be handed a department to 'run'. That would have bored me to death.
I'm good for about three years at a job, and at that point, I've just about built whatever system needs to be built. Then it's time to move on to build something else.
One of my favorite John Eldredge quotes is "desire reveals design." It's true in so many ways. We humans are designed with certain leanings, and if we cannot live according to them, we are just not right.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, at least give it a chance that part of the urge to "run" might actually be the frontier calling, and your heart naturally longs to go.
Ever notice how your heart is usually a few months ahead of your brain in these matters? God is a mysterious guy, ain't He? He just might be having a quiet chat with your heart, while you're brain's busy getting ready for that stupid annual review.
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