[imechura]

Just stop thinking about it and find another job. I was in a position in 2005 where I was treated like crap by my boss. I found a new one that paid more and treated me better.

In the end you are responsible for your career path and work surroundings and you are the only one who can or will do anything to fix it.

The statement below throws up a red flag for me. It is the people who MAKE the time to pursue advancement that achieve it. People who do there job at work because it their job tend to always be in crappy positions and underpaid. Fix that.

[hear you. However, programming is not my life. I'm intellectually exhausted when I come home and have no drive to pursue the things I TRULY love]