[ethbro]

I think the other way to look at it is trying to gradually engineer scenarios where you do have that flexibility to walk / take another offer.

Everyone is going to have at least one point in their life where they need to take job X because Y. But you can do things to make that the exception rather than the rule, even if you don't feel you're a wunderkind.

Continual job searching, self marketing, networking, skill refresh towards emerging areas. These all give you better odds to be on the right side of that discussion than the wrong one.