You most likely won’t learn good programming on the job

Such is the nature of the work world. Some people are naturally attracted to spending hours doing thier favourite thing and wish they could do it all they time. It doesn't mean they are not good at other things. Sometimes it's just a pay cheque. Everything doesn't have to be a crusade. Dare I say there is no such thing as good programming, it's really a matter of how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Otherwise everyone who desires to be good would be coding in ASM instead of oop.

"– Find a company that does want you to be as good a programmer as you can be."

This truly is wishful thinking. If you compare programming to story writing then most companies want you to output a solid news article every day, that pays the bills, while most writers would like to output award winning creative writing, that has a small audience, and does not pay the bills. Programming is similar. Professional programming optimizes for speed and usefulness rather than elegance and perfection.

Considering the amount of times I have been told that I can refactor an MVP solution later and also the amount of times that has not happened, I guess this is true.