You are at a company where people are not interested nor invested in the work they are doing: they are there for the paycheck, they resigned themselves to the s

You are at a company where people are not interested nor invested in the work they are doing: they are there for the paycheck, they resigned themselves to the situation, you are likely viewed as "green and fresh out of college, you'll learn yet", and the situation is hopeless. I worked at a place like that. And it was a software company. And it was my second time working there. After I realized that the company deteriorated far more than I had anticipated in my absence (and I did anticipate it), I quit the place the first chance I got, and never regretted it. Generally if you love working with computers, you have to give up working with them professionally, because today's computer work is nothing like the work of old: too much politics and management meddling, too few people who actually care about doing things correctly, or about working with computers at all, for that matter. For most people working with computers today (and I even experienced this first hand working in Silicon Valley), working in this type of a job is just means to get above average pay, or decent pay, just like for most people an automobile is something that gets one from point a to point b, instead of this incredible machine which can put together economy, performance, and design all in one.