>tfw your work uses a proprietary language and framework

On your own time? Damn that was hard.

>>59817829
>He does it for free

>>59817875
>he doesn't improve himself in his spare time
i guess your hobbies include binge watching Netflix, catching up with your gal pals, and complaining about wage inequality

>>59818072
Ease up with the judgement my dude I'm trying just as hard as you. It's just that my company is fucking itself over with this stuff. Not just me. They keep having to reinvent the wheel because they have to be special snowflakes. They haven't even introduced unit testing yet. How does one flourish in that environment?

>>59820010
I have a buddy that changes jobs every time he wants to learn a new language.

He literally goes to the interview with jorts, sandals, whatever.

While in the interview he just says that he really wants to learn whatever technologies they are using.

The last time he did this he had 5 different companies making him offers.

>>59817743
1. grow balls
2. find new job
3. quit current job

make sure not to fuck that order up, it's important.

>>59817743
Don't be a fucking idiot.

I work in silicon valley (infrastructure engineer) and no one cares what language you know, just that you are good at what you know, learning a new language is easy as fuck.

>>59820689
san francisco as fuck

>>59820735
You are correct, though we used to work together in Redwood city (I work in San Jose now and he works in San Francisco).

>>59817743
DESU that looks good on a resume.

> Put up with shitty proprietary framework with shit tier documentation for years

As long as you have experience in other common areas you'll be fine. But yeah get the fuck out of there.

>>59818072
Seriously this, if you are working in IT all the shit you heard about needing to keep up to speed in your own time only counts if you actually want to be good at IT and progress in your career, otherwise just be a lazy prick

>>59820847
Literally every career, doctors and lawyers are required to spend an amount of time on personal development to keep their licence/certificate, you should be doing this if you don't want to be left behind

>>59820847
I know a lot of shitty desktop support, low level sysadmins that do no career development in their free time, all the very technically advanced people (who make 50% more on average) spend a lot of time on professional growth.

>>59821386
they're not expected to operate on patients in their spare time

but everyone should at least be reading industry news and shit like that

>>59823340
Not many doctors regularly operate on patients at all, many surgeons do work on their dexterity and a couple of common techniques like suturing in their down time tho, and every doctor I know reads medical journals in their spare time
Nothing stopping you reading about algorithms in your spare time