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by chrisbennet 3384 days ago
Life is Extremely Brief.

The time you spend toughing it out in a job you hate is time you could have spent doing a job you enjoy. Look for a new job and do your professional best for the company until you can move on. Absolutely do not tell your employer that you are looking to leave.

As a data point, I've never worked on code older than a year or two and most of the time it was code I wrote. Perhaps I'm some kind of lucky unicorn but I've been doing almost exclusively greenfield projects for 30+ years.