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The advice to try to move your current job toward your dream job is a great piece of advice. I have witnessed a person who is the "sour apple" in every team I have been: the person who complains a lot, always has negative retro feedback, and is generally sarcastic about everything. Yet often the obstacle to fixing these things is simply that the person who noticed the problem wants someone else to fix it. That sour apple person should have just gone in and worked out a good solution. I have often personally found that winning support for a new practice or technology in a software team is simply a matter of making it easy to adopt. Underneath all the pushback is usually just the fear that the new thing will cost more for the team, so anything you can do to lower it will help adoption happen. Make it easy to understand, easy to maintain, etc. and the rest will follow.