Its called a golden leash or a "prison made out of gold".
Ultimately you have only few choices
keep the job as is, focus more on not-work related activities
switch job for a better employer, with more interesting work
start a company yourself
do freelance work
Entrepreneurship
If you feel like your intelligence, skills, creativity is underused and you are not valued enough, have you tried creating a startup that does the same thing as the legacy software at a fraction of the cost, because you can skip all this dead weight?
It may be a very drastic change and you have to let go of your safe environment/pay, it may require a tremendous amount of courage, but I do not see how companies who are this inefficient can remain competitive and viable. Do you have coworkers who feel the same way? Do you have friends who have business that need technological solutions or other social connections?
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Its called a golden leash or a "prison made out of gold".
Ultimately you have only few choices
Entrepreneurship
If you feel like your intelligence, skills, creativity is underused and you are not valued enough, have you tried creating a startup that does the same thing as the legacy software at a fraction of the cost, because you can skip all this dead weight?
It may be a very drastic change and you have to let go of your safe environment/pay, it may require a tremendous amount of courage, but I do not see how companies who are this inefficient can remain competitive and viable. Do you have coworkers who feel the same way? Do you have friends who have business that need technological solutions or other social connections?