Should i Quit?

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13 years ago

Here is my awful situation. My grammer isn't that good, keep that in mind while you read.

I work in a PHP (a language i despise) devshop as the lead developer (i only have 1 year experience in programming), we build CMS powered websites. I started working in this company a few months ago, before that i worked at 2 other similiar companies.

The main thing i hate is the workflow, for example here is how we build a website:

  * a design is sent to me by mail.
  * i go to a website we've already built and download it's source
  * i clean the source folders (images etc..)
  * i go to a website we've already built and export the database tables
  * i clean them.
  * i build it.
  * i upload it with ftp.
  * test using the refresh button :o
  * done.

at no point unit testing is used (my boss says it's a waste of time). we don't use revision control tools (my boss says no one uses it). we don't use tools to automate stuff (deployment etc..).

When i suggest to my boss to use those stuff, he comes back "i have more than 5 years of experience you have 1". My boss isn't a developer, he thinks Firefox was built by Google and "IETester is better than ie9 so use it".

All of our websites have stuff like this in the code: `mysql_query('select * from foo where id = ' . $_GET['id'])`. Some of our websites have no password verification on the admin panel.

Keep in mind that i have seen those stuff in all 3 companies i worked in, this is awful.

HN'ers should i quit and start my own company ?

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