Aside from the bureaucracy, that actually sounds like a <i>fun</i> job to me, solving obscure problems and working with things almost no one has heard of, instead of churning out and maintaining boring &quot;cookie-cutter&quot; applications. Then again, I do like retrocomputing, reverse-engineering, and the demoscene...<p><i>I imagined myself in a job interview in 2010, trying to explain how useful my extensive knowledge of Xenix, PL&#x2F;M build systems, and VMS would be to my prospective new employer.</i><p>You can phrase it as having gained that knowledge through your problem-solving skills. Working on obscure things, that you can&#x27;t just Google the answer to when you get stuck, really helps build those skills.