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Get out ASAP. I've been in a similar position for the past 2.5 years: el. eng. MSc from a respected uni and I've been restarting PCs, fixing failing VB6 program
by donquichotte 12y ago
Get out ASAP. I've been in a similar position for the past 2.5 years: el. eng. MSc from a respected uni and I've been restarting PCs, fixing failing VB6 programs and reading HN. (Although at a decent salary.) Now I've finally been able to muster up the courage to leave here to travel. I'm just afraid that spending so much time in a meaningless dead-end position has ruined my chances to get hired at more interesting an challenging positions.
- ptaipale 12y agoYour next job interviewer is most likely not going to know that your previous job was that boring. And he/she does not need to. A job like you have can still be quite okay experience; the bottom line is that someone hired you, you made a living, and you got some experience. In fact, this may be a more valuable experience you believe now. In addition to reading HN you can study more new things, whatever interests you. In the next interview, you can be honest and say that "I like to get more challenges, and I feel I can do more than what I have done". True and to the point. One of my earlier jobs was such that I applied for an interesting job to work on SQL applications in Unix environment, at XYZ, the largest publishing house in the country; I did not get that job but they put me to a team that worked on a useless Christmas card address register using dBase IV on MS-DOS. Afterwards, what I could say was that "I worked on database solutions with XYZ company, and while I liked the working environment, I'm looking for some more challenging tasks". Got me into a job where I stayed for 20 years and 1 day.