clipped from: www.fiftyfoureleven.com 3-6 years ago you were learning CSS, then getting up to speed on your project management skills and refining your design talent for the web. You learned to consult. Instruct. Now you or your team can handle pretty much anything thrown your way but you want more then that project you did 8 months ago (or you want to do it again because you know you can do it better and faster :).
That is, we grow professionally, but where are the benefits akin to promotion? Higher wages? That may be enough to keep some people motivated. But just look around. As people grow and their skill set grows with them, they are searching for greater challenges and rewards, or more accurately, they want to flex their improving skill set and be rewarded accordingly.