Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride (and get your green card). I would work on automating what you can to save yourself time. Be on the look

Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride (and get your green card). I would work on automating what you can to save yourself time. Be on the look out for easy things that can save other time and present proposals to implement X and save Y time. I'm been in companies though where for whatever reason no one wants to change/improve anything. Some fear automating things saving time will cost them their job or they might not understand/not want to learn new things. So they are never going to be open to change. Be on guard for things going wrong and being blamed for trying new things. Learn that they are doing inside and out, then look at ways your team can do it better. If you just settle in and keep doing what you're doing take some time to learn new techniques and technologies that can help you later. Maybe start a blog, writing to build an audience to make you an 'expert' and open up possible product offerings in the future. (If that interests you). Good luck, some companies are never going to do things the 'right' way. Good luck passing along some best practices.