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Man you have terrified me about my current situation. I'm currently on a team that is managing an extremely mature internal Angular project. The small team of two devs are just doing tickets like what you describe yet the management has no problem with this and does not hound us over why we haven't committed anything in days or a week+.

This is due to their lack of technical knowledge and they have accepted this reality because the outcomes that they want do end up happening so they dont rock the boat(or know how to since they can't discern technical stuff).

I know its a great spot to be in short term but Ive been scared because long term I will be in a big hole when the next role comes along and its more like what you describe and I haven't grown to match the role. I've considered leaving once the market improves but I don't think I can fathom giving up what I have either. Alternatively I have considered staying until I eventually get downsized but that could be years. I don't know.... :/

>>nebula+(OP)
If you are worried about your career prospects built a portifolio with what you want to work in the future. If your mental state with the project doesn't allow you to work in arcane bugs full-time, reserve some time for personal learning and portifolio building, but keep working full-time.

A good personal open source project is worth more when interviewing than anything else really. Can't fake that in an interview.

>>Daniel+r31
I have been slowly doing this but in my experience, I have never had anyone care about my open source projects and the real problem is not raw coding skill, its being able to work in a large team and follow all modern processes that you'd pickup in modern teams. I am trying to learn and adopt these processes on my team (my coworker is onboard) but its a slog.

For example we compile locally, then manually move the compiled code over to the server instead of using something like docker. Part of this is the restrictions we have over our environment, part of this is inertia.

Fortunately I haven't given up trying to move to that paradigm but sometimes I actually dont want to be on a modern team. Its like I have plateaued to a comfortable state that I know wont always be there but I wish it did. I hope what I am explaining makes sense.