Feels like I have been in a dead end job on a dead end team without anyway to get out.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pay is good though so guess I'll stay and just do my learning and non-team stuff on the weekends....

Seems like it's the only way out now...

Noob question: I never understood what a dead end job is. Can you or someone care to ELI5?

@Floydimus where there's very little chance that you get to do anything new, or learn anything significantly new.

At least that's what it means for me, was promised to get to work on New stuff but get pulled back into the old mess/using tech we've been using the years that's outdated.

In general dead end means no chance of promotion.

@donuts oh!!! I get it now.

I hope get to learn and earn more. I was in similar situation and reluctant to make a job switch. I focused on side projects to keep myself engaged and entertained while I learnt from them.

Hope you get your desired job soon :)

@Floydimus I don't have time for side projects though... At least during work hours... That's what makes it bad... Must of the work is because others are too lazy to do it or sitting in meetings where I don't have to

@donuts I mentioned it because you mentioned some weekend learning.

As long as you have a good WLB and decent pay then stick to it. If no then time to move on.

@Floydimus well if I need weekends to learn stuff to try to get another job that I should've been doing anyway... Not exactly much WLB.

For me moving on means finding another team but so far, nothing posted sound any better... And the rate few that do require... The tech in missing that was supposed to learn/get experience in... And/or moving to another location...

@donuts a lot of parameters it seems. Hang in there, night is darkest just before the dawn.

@Floydimus still using ASP with no chance of ever having the personal time to learn something new

Have seen it
Not ASP.NET

ASP

It’s a job that ends your career

@Floydimus also washing cars for a living or managing most corporate chains at the retail level lol

@MadMadMadMrMim sounds horrible but peaceful.

@Floydimus there are times I’d agree
Just show up work
Put in your day
Collect a paycheck
But then there is the worry they cut your job
And you have no marketable skills
You know how the job ads go
They may as well advertise they expect fellatio skills most of the time
Everyone wants some new obscure set of skills these days or things that people working full time and having a personal life would not have learned

@MadMadMadMrMim this is my motivation to work, making myself future proof.

Constant growth is the key to a fulfilled life.

@Floydimus yes I agree
However for those of us in America the goal of the system is to prevent that and make excuses As to why we didn’t work hard enough

And to lie about successes these days

@Floydimus doesn’t it seem like we have reversed our statements ? Yes at one point said the same thing
When they were making me think that this bs would be over eventually or were keeping me in suspense of life continuing
Truth is these bastards are inhuman and have no regard for anyone’s life hardly even their own

@MadMadMadMrMim haven't we all agreed that US is a laughing stock right now?

@Floydimus yeah
And it would be nice if it was a laughing stock that didn’t try to prevent you from leaving when you’d want to leave because you learned this

I had a dead job offer too.

Fixing/making new features to at least several years old project in production,
which had really bad code quality full of spaghetti, zero development environment (debugging in production! Outdated not used git repos!), and no testing or documentation,

Thankfully at last I was able to come to senses and to deny this offer.

The only good thing about that project was, it used golang.