My first official job after getting my CompSci degree was to work for a DOE funded research center focused on remediation techniques under consideration for var

My first official job after getting my CompSci degree was to work for a DOE funded research center focused on remediation techniques under consideration for various decommissioned nuclear energy sites. My job was to develop a multimedia information system as well as multi criteria automated decision making system focused on the various remediation technologies and their efficacy as they were being tested at decommissioned nuclear power plants. Hanford was one of those places. Oak Ridge was another. The job was cool at first but there was no one to mentor me and a large part of the job was to write monthly reports on progress. The reports were very important and they were an important part of maintaining the grant. I think it would take me like a week to complete the reports with all the editing and churn. After a while, I came to hate the work. Wasn't getting valuable experience and pay was not that good. So, I wound up moving to Silicon Valley to work for a enterprise software vendor where one of my buddies helped me land a coding job. Hope they finally get Hanford and Oak Ridge cleaned up!