After graduating in 1990, I was hired by an oil company to work on their internal expert systems group (yes the whole AI thing happened in the early 90s too..

After graduating in 1990, I was hired by an oil company to work on their internal expert systems group (yes the whole AI thing happened in the early 90s too.. except without all the linear algebra which would have made it useful). After 6 months, they canned the project and for the next 2 years I worked in desktop support. I did all kinds of interesting things like install lotus 123, install graphics boards, load terminate-stay-resident drivers for memory extenders..(if you know what those are, you’re close to collecting social security) and... oh yeah, if you couldn’t print a document, I was your man. I felt like everything I learned in school was a complete waste of time.