> Two and a half years at a small company, working on their legacy codebase. We did innumerable small cleanups, bodged in new features, and did one bigger archi

> Two and a half years at a small company, working on their legacy codebase. We did innumerable small cleanups, bodged in new features, and did one bigger architectural change. Even the big change was the sort of thing that would only take a week in a sane codebase. Can't you take some pride in that? Any idiot can do green fields work, they'll likely be gone before any of their mistakes get a chance to become apparent, but taking an existing lump of spaghetti and moulding it without breaking anything is a whole different ball game.