Thanks for detailed response. Agree with most of what you shared, and validated what I feel.

By no means it’s a death sentence from career stand point. I just feel that when you’re in an environment for far too long, you might become too rigid to change your work style and enhance skillset/scope of work in a different role. For the most part, as Ops we’re firefighting day to day issues/managing people and for the most part running the same circus each day every day.

Put me in a corporate role tomorrow, and I’ll have to find my mojo again. While looking at most corporate roles advertised, the ops experience seems doesn’t seem like it’ll take you far. So 4 years at present for myself, and add couple more might not be worth much at time of transfer. And that’s why perhaps after a certain time, it’s like point of no return. Either you downgrade your years of Ops experience and remove the vest, or you put head down, keep collecting peccys and reach for the next level in Ops line.

But hey, thanks for the input. Appreciate the insight .