Is it worth taking any steps if for more than six months there is no project to work on the profile and they are forced to work in a different profile?

Question

Career in IT

The situation is this.

I'm a junior front-end developer, I've been unemployed for more than six months, asking what's on the projects, only mumbling in response. Once my boss told me verbatim "You can make a great career for yourself while you are young", but how can I do this if there are no projects? I must say that I work for a rather large company.
Now they are forced to work on a project that is related to the functional testing of some books, that is, connections with front-end development full 0, zero, bagel, etc.

I don’t know what to do. I asked questions to the manager, the effect is zero, I can’t find the project myself, because I have to be assigned projects and I don’t have to choose them (since I’m a junior).

Zero understanding of what to do. There is absolutely no desire to do what they give me to do right now, because this is a dead end for my career development. I also don’t want to quit because looking for a job is still a hemorrhoid.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? What they were doing? Etc.

PS I apologize for the chaotic description.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Slavery was abolished even when we were not in the world. If you are not satisfied - change jobs, what's the problem? Ah, scary? Well, life is generally scary and dangerous, it always ends the same
PS this is another question in the style of "ask my uncle on the Internet what I should do." No one knows!

Answer 2

I got into a similar situation a long time ago, it didn’t lead to anything good for my career (there were reasons not to leave right away). Development skills improve only from development itself, every month when a person is not engaged in the activity that he needs, these skills atrophy, i.e. in your mind it seems to you that you remember / understand everything, but in reality you are stupid like a trainee. Conclusion - if there are no deterrent factors, then do not stay there, the manager does not care deeply about the fact that you are out of work and sag in skills. Well, or if you can’t leave right now, then be fully aware that in order to find a new job, you need to pump all the skills outside of work, the employer is primarily interested in the availability of skills, and not the method of acquiring them

Answer 3

do it while young you
take your teeth
and get them to bounce on ANY question about React
questions look at SO
then take your hands

Answer 4

It will become easier to go in for sports, better in some kind of combat, make decisions and fight.

Answer 5

look for a job without quitting. An ideal option for everyone - and you still have a job in any case, and the employer will take away the headache in terms of your full-time workload .. and there it’s a matter of communication - you like it, you don’t like it

Answer 6

Tried to find a new job

Answer 7

I can’t find a project for myself, because I have to be assigned projects, and I don’t have to choose them (since I’m a junior).

An interesting approach, you tell people on freelance this, but they will be surprised that it turns out that someone owes them something.
No one owes you anything, it's you who needs to earn money, it's you who needs to get practice, it's you who needs to develop.

One day my boss told me verbatim "You can make a great career for yourself while you're young", but how can I do it if there are no projects?

Find a project, participate in open-source, there are many ways.

I must say that I work for a fairly large company.

Big company doesn't mean good. If a company has no projects for half a year, I doubt that it is good.

Now they are forced to work on a project that is related to the functional testing of some books, that is, connections with front-end development full 0, zero, bagel, etc.

Perhaps you can’t cope with the position of the front and therefore you are assigned another job?

There is absolutely no desire to do what they give me to do right now, because this is a dead end for my career development.

Why are you being assigned work that you shouldn't be doing? Quit your job and find a new job.

I also don’t want to quit because looking for a job is still a hemorrhoid.

Life is a complete mess. You will sit for so many years and as a result you will get nothing. No one will bring you on a silver platter, you will have to make an effort.