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A few weeks ago I was commited with something like that. I just quit the job, I couldn't sleep at night and I was not making any progress in the first days. I know there is a learning curve, but it had been two weeks and I couldn't do anything. Be sure you can work with that before accepting, because then is really hard.

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I had a similar experience a few months ago, myself, with a huge, very poorly written PHP app. I lasted three weeks; three weeks in which I didn't sleep and felt constantly agitated while I spent nearly every waking moment at the computer trying to be productive amidst an ocean of stress. My whole family suffered from this project, because I became very difficult to live with.

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