You might ask "why did you took the job in the first place?", well that's either because I can't find work in my area and most of it is PHP/Python work and I can't move either, the Rails related work that is remote requires that I move and remote work tends to be "US remote".
The PHP code I'm working with is extremely complex/messy and most of the code is undocumented, I have to do lots of debugging just for changing the simplest things and I'm also not very familiar with this language.
Most of the code is a mess of spaghetti code, think of HTML, JS and PHP all glued up with no proper structure.
The git repository is also one of the biggest repositories I have worked with (247 MB), 45,000 files and 1 million lines of code for the whole project.
I was already able to complete some tasks but I can't help but feel miserable with this project.
Recently my manager started asking me questions like "How's it going? Will you finish this task today?" and I explained to him I'm having difficulties with the code and that I'm not very comfortable working with it but he's insisting that I stay firm at it and get familiar with the code. Please advice.
