Day job? No. Side business? Yes (especially once I start making money!)

My job now is giving me no skills that I would want in the future. I didn't realize what the job was when I joined because they kind of switched what I was going to be doing. Because of that, I'm stuck with ETL stuff when I don't want to do ETL at all. I don't want to leave because I only spent 10 months at my last job and don't want to look like a job hopper. Plus I may have a gig coming down the line to join a startup my old boss has started.

My job is essentially meaningless and does nothing for the world and the code I write is absolutely garbage because I don't care enough and no one cares enough to critique it or write it themselves.

But I get paid 160k/yr so it's not so bad

What do you actually do? (If you don't mind describing it)

I maintain an internal legacy PHP and Perl (yes, both) web app from the early 2000s for a large corp.

I am. My coworkers are great and that helps a ton.

Love it

not very much, seems like leading nowhere