I do realize that most work is maintenance, but there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exc

I do realize that most work is maintenance, but there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exclusively with obscure garbage - the first one makes you employable at other places, the second one doesn't or makes you a worse candidate. So it's impossible to have someone say "it would be better if you did [x] this way because [y]" or "if you want to know more about the subject you should read [z]"? Weird, I've been doing these things for other people pretty often. Is it really entitlement that I'd like to experience something similar? This is also what I meant about "passionate" people. I do realize not everyone has to be like this, but I'd love to have just one guy around with a lot of knowledge and a desire to share it. I actually like to write documentation. Currently I don't even have a place where I could put it though. And before you ask - yes, the management got introduced to the idea and they told me that "we don't have time for that". When there is a place to for documentation I seem to be the only one who actually puts any effort into writing it. The solutions work in a business sense, but require tons of constant maintenance (to the point where it is impossible to focus at other work because everything breaks constantly) or make the job harder than it needs to be. I literally got told to not refactor stuff like one letter variables, obvious SQL Injection bugs, removing dead code or refactoring one copy-pasted block into a function. This like these often lead to mistakes that cause outages for the clients and force the team into working overtime. I automate what I can. More could be done if similar solutions could be put in production. At home I work on side projects with .NET and Python. I also like to read programming books and blogs in my free time and it irks me I cannot apply the knowledge I get from these sources at work.