Juho Snellman's Weblog Home – About – Archives – Subscribe The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy - my worst job ever Posted on 2015-09-01 in General Today marks the 10th anniversary of the most bizarre, and possibly the saddest, job I ever took. The year was 2005. My interest in writing a content management system in Java for the company that bought our startup had been steadily draining away, while my real passion was working on compilers and other programming language infrastructure (mostly SBCL ). One day I spotted a job advert looking for compiler people, which was a rare occurrence in that time and place. I breezed through the job interview, but did not ask the right questions and ignored a couple of warning signs. Oops. It turned out to be a bit of an adventure in retrocomputing. This was the former internal tools unit of a very large company, let's call them X. For ...