What to do with work?

Question

Time Management

Good afternoon. I don’t really know what to do, I decided to write here, maybe someone will push me to some kind of decision ...

The situation is this, about nine months ago I moved to a small outsourcing company (the third place of work, before that I wrote on swing in a large company). For the first half of the year, everything was difficult and good, I wrote the system alone for the SEO company, from scratch - my own king. Learned a lot. And then the bosses changed and decided to change our company (as it turned out in vain, nothing good came out of them), and I was transferred to a company where the project has been written since 2007, we are already the third contractor, JSF, J2EE, controllers in 1500 lines code, but this is not the worst. To this they took another boring aunt under 50 who had 15 years of experience, mostly worked in banks and other horrors. For all the admiration like “and now JS is soooo good” goes in the style of “and in our years JS was not easy to debug”, etc. In short, it's sad here, especially when I see interesting jobs in all sorts of communities. So I don’t know what to do, quietly to the owner of the company, but he, of course, will not just look for a new project for me. On the other hand, they don’t press for hours, close to home, but I can’t force myself to be effective (I remember how I wrote then, there was only a break for food, I didn’t have to read the stack trace to understand where the mistake was, a delicious feeling). And they say that work should be a joy, but I like JS, but changing jobs is like flickering companies in a resume. What would you do in my place, habrouser? Would you continue to sit for the remaining 8 months (then there is a certain “critical” moment under the contract with the company)? Have you tried going to an interview? Tell your boss you can't take it anymore and change the project? On the other hand, they don’t press for hours, close to home, but I can’t force myself to be effective (I remember how I wrote then, there was only a break for food, I didn’t have to read the stack trace to understand where the mistake was, a delicious feeling). And they say that work should be a joy, but I like JS, but changing jobs is like flickering companies in a resume. What would you do in my place, habrouser? Would you continue to sit for the remaining 8 months (then there is a certain “critical” moment under the contract with the company)? Have you tried going to an interview? Tell your boss you can't take it anymore and change the project? On the other hand, they don’t press for hours, close to home, but I can’t force myself to be effective (I remember how I wrote then, there was only a break for food, I didn’t have to read the stack trace to understand where the mistake was, a delicious feeling). And they say that work should be a joy, but I like JS, but changing jobs is like flickering companies in a resume. What would you do in my place, habrouser? Would you continue to sit for the remaining 8 months (then there is a certain “critical” moment under the contract with the company)? Have you tried going to an interview? Tell your boss you can't take it anymore and change the project? and I like JS, but changing jobs is flickering with companies in a resume. What would you do in my place, habrouser? Would you continue to sit for the remaining 8 months (then there is a certain “critical” moment under the contract with the company)? Have you tried going to an interview? Tell your boss you can't take it anymore and change the project? and I like JS, but changing jobs is flickering with companies in a resume. What would you do in my place, habrouser? Would you continue to sit for the remaining 8 months (then there is a certain “critical” moment under the contract with the company)? Have you tried going to an interview? Tell your boss you can't take it anymore and change the project?

UPD thanks to everyone, I told the owner of my (outsourcing) company that it’s not a hungry year in the yard and I’m leaving, but where it depends on him. Let's see what fate sends and I will hope for all the best.

Answer 1

Without hesitation, I would change jobs, such decisions in my life were the most correct.

Answer 2

I do not understand the phrase: "flicker with firms." This should be the last worry in my opinion.
If you feel that there is no development, the project is boring and there is no desire to work there, then there is no point in spending as much as 8 months sitting on your pants.
Feet in hand and on the search for new achievements! :)

Answer 3

This is burnout. Try to promote the idea of ​​refactoring all this junk, if it doesn’t work out - get out, if there are no solutions to improve the project and working conditions - these are no longer your problems.

Answer 4

Go to interviews.
New projects and new problems are very enlivening;)
And versatile experience is rarely a negative moment :)

Answer 5

There has never been such a thing that at least one employer hinted at "flickering with firms." And I never wrote a resume. I was looking for something interesting and went to chat. The main thing was the project and conditions. If any of this did not suit him, he turned around and left.
At the same time, I met people who sat in their place until melted and were simply afraid to change jobs. The authorities spread rot, the salary was delayed, there were projects full of UG. But they did not leave, they were afraid of changing places. At the same time, there was a real hunger in the labor market for workers. Full of vacancies.
PS From personal experience. The most real progress from the employer began in the direction of improving my well-being, both material and moral. Only when I said that I was leaving. And before that, not everyone “did not understand” hints and direct texts and ignored them. But with such there was no way. For they have brought it to an extreme state. Not making a decision in time.

Answer 6

You need a small victorious war, take on a small interesting project, if it doesn’t exist, come up with it yourself and tinker in your free time, even if it is absolutely useless for the world, but it will give you satisfaction.
Otherwise, you will go to offices, because even the most interesting projects at some point get bored and become a burden. It’s a pity I didn’t know this at the time and kept chasing interesting work.

Answer 7

Work must be exciting. "Choose a job you love and you won't have to work a day." (c)
As for "flickering with companies" - don't worry at all. If your experience is interesting to the interviewer, he will take you.
If he has a question about moving from place to place, you can honestly answer that the work for your qualifications in the company has ended and you have moved to where you can be effective. And it will be a big plus in the interview :)

Answer 8

Learn what you like (Node.js there or what is in demand in the JS world now) and in 6-7 months start looking for another job.

Answer 9

I would look for everything I like. If you sit and suffer like that - productivity will be below the baseboard - when it became known that the company was winding down - you understand that there is no point in working further ...
True, if I don’t have development, then that’s it, until I change the wheels.

Answer 10

Read here About a person , and about his professional activities here The Way of "Tao" , briefly describing his career path, he also indicates specific reasons, perhaps you will decide something after reading it. Good luck.

Answer 11

Many companies in the resume are scary and right.
Not only the company chooses the employee, but the employee also chooses the company.
There is no problem in changing jobs once a year at the beginning of a career. 1,2,3 times is ok. Then the question arises: why a person did not understand what he wants and did not learn how to find it.