I'm so desperate for actual mentorship I started to cold email local mid size companies. It's so fucking retarded to have a job but zero direction and a tech grifting boss, I think I'll even consider a pay cut. Long term if I stay I'll atrophy I can't even bring myself to study on my own time because work is just 8 hr daycare where I just have to look busy but all I do is play dwarf fortress and vibe code using open source libraries.

I graduated April 2025 technically but has this job since April 2024. Do my chances of getting an actual, work my ass off job in R&D/firmware as a junior go up or down as time goes on? I'm not learning anything and I have a physics degree so it's difficult to compete with EE/SE guys even with a lot of research experience/work experience through uni.