Some of that is forgivable on it's own or maybe 3/10 but.... I would not be surprised if they also had a mainframe and used COBOL somewhere or runs a portion of the business on an old Apple II

Looks like a google translate copy and paste. If you had the energy I recommend stereotyping the name of sender and guess the language of origin and reply in a google translate copy and paste in that language.

I am salary, so no tracked hours. I work roughly 40 hours a week (at least I am in the office that much) give or take depending on the project.

I have deadlines but normally finish in plenty of time.

I break things up and plan out my tasks on my own for the project and knock them out to meet requirements. I pretty much manage myself in this respect. As long as I make my deadlines it's pretty cushy but I have to deal with a lot of corporate BS and have little to no say on user needs.

Maybe see a therapist or counselor? This sounds an awful lot like depression. It helped me out when I was trying to figure things out. It helped keep my emotions in check in the process (I didn't take any medications) so I could think clearly and figure it out.

@CyberXander Your example got me curious, so I had to look it up. According to the spec, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986, URIs are based on US-ASCII characters. Looks like only the latin languages stand a chance in practice or the english alphabet version of the language i.e. example.com/api/v1/konechnaya_tochka, example.com/api/v1/endpunkt, example.com/api/v1/punto_final, example.com/api/v1/jongjeom. Thought it was neat.

@DubbaThony lol, fair enough. I usually handled the interactive portion. Docker for me has both been a huge pain and a huge help all in one.

@linuxxx - I have cheered before on success. Like hands up in a Y with fists and verbal noises. Accidentally scared the wife but you are not alone.

@DubbaThony I usually wrote logs to a file and synced to the host machine. I just tell them to check the logs on the host or ftp them if they need a local copy from the server. It's way easier imo.

@bigus-dickus it's done in parallel kind of. The css, HTML (handlebars), and js are done in parallel. It Lints, then precompiles, then minifies/obfuscates for production with babel piped in there in places. It makes no logical sense but it sort of works. The config file is like 400 lines long. It's one big mess that hangs together by a thread. The whole front end is written that way. Pulled on a thread too hard once and found out the hard way how messy the original dev was with the app architecture.

@wolfmaster8 I've gone this route before. I've used Cofoundry CMS with DotNetCore and Vuejs. Paying for the service might be better in this case for dev and client. I had to build a lot of entities custom but it turned out well.

@mishaor the best part is that right after that the code gets minified and obfuscated. So all the linting rules get tossed out the window anyway in the deployed code. 1 of the many reasons I'm trashing it and writing new build scripts.

Cyber Security is a lot like reverse engineering, especially when trying to plug holes a hacker might come through. So reverse engineer your problem. Start at the end and work backwards. Have your friend look at a job board for jobs they want. Check the qualifications and certs needed. Google the qualifications, have them get proficient at that. As for certs, the standards are public. Learn the standards and find some free practice tests. Google pentesting labs. You'll also probably need to be a good sysadmin. I'd google that too.

@bigus-dickus The build pipeline is getting scrapped and rebuilt. It's not worth the time to change the current webpack config due to this. For now I'm just going to rant about it until I finish the replacement.

@Demolishun I did. Totally worth it. Thanks for that. Needed a chuckle

That makes a lot of sense. I have been finding gigs based on my network and dev groups I frequent so the customer service is at a good start there. Just need to keep it up through the process and be genuine with the client.