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> 1. For the second time, I'm working in a job where, before I took the job,
> I was told I would be working on a specific technology that I was VERY
> interested in learning,
A lot depends on how badly you need or want to learn this technology.
If you feel that what you're doing now is necessary and you don't really
hate it, could you take a class in the language or whatever it is while
you work there?
If you get to the point of talking "seriously" about the discrepancy
between the job offered and the reality, you might offer an exchange,
such as, you'll continue with what they have you working on if they
would pay for you to take a training course in the technology you had
been promised you'd learn there. Some places will go for that, some
would be aghast. You'll have to decide what you think the possibilities
are.
