> there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exclusively with obscure garbage And what kind o

> there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exclusively with obscure garbage And what kind of "obscure garbage" you're working with? And then, how did you let this happen? You were recruited to work on some concrete software, didn't you? And if they lied to you about where you will be working, which is a betrayal that is almost impossible to amend, why didn't you change the jobs as soon as possible? Given your original question, there must be something wrong somewhere with your approach. You said that you've been in several companies (how many?). If two or three, you most probably have had tough luck. If more, then it's hard for me to believe that the job market around you is so full of fraud and deception and you couldn't filter the shitty jobs out by asking how they write their software. Europe and North America don't have it as bad as you describe. Or maybe it's neither Europe nor America? You never mentioned your location.