Title: I love programming and I enjoy solving good problems. Even though I am aware that there is some level of grunt work associated with each job but this one is just killing me.<p>Most of my job deals with adding CRUD functionality and bug fixes here and there. People don&#x27;t seem to be tiny bit interested in doing things better. Our front-end developer chooses to re-implement everything from modals, alert boxes, to validation in form of horrendously ugly code because he believes his code will be more understandable to &#x27;him&#x27;. The pay is not great and there nothing exciting associated with this job. In fact, out of 8 hours, I barely write code for 2 hours.<p>I only took this job in order to buy some time and create some interesting things but this job barely leaves me any time to do so. When I started looking for job, I didn&#x27;t get good response from HN hiring &#x2F; freelancing threads (maybe because I don&#x27;t have a good portfolio).<p>I feel I should know modern frameworks like Rails and Angular to have a better appeal but it would take months before I get proficient in them and I have never been good at learning new frameworks for just the purpose of learning. I have no idea what I should do?
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