My first job after dropping out of college the first time was working for a Tae Kwon Do management firm, writing software to help people run martial arts studio

My first job after dropping out of college the first time was working for a Tae Kwon Do management firm, writing software to help people run martial arts studios. The job had me doing ColdFusion and Adobe Flash [1]. Most of my job involved working on their marketing pages, but at some point they had me work on the credit card processing platform, and I've sort drawn a soft line in the sand that I won't do that ever again. Part of it was just that the code was really messy (it was ColdFusion after all), but a lot of it boiled down to having to deal with the million edge case conditions required to achieve PCI Compliance. Somehow, that company had managed to get a PCI Compliance label, and I have no idea how, because the code was held together with duct tape and prayers; there were hundreds of nested if statements, and if's nested inside else nested inside other ifs. I'm not saying that it's unnecessarily complicated, but I know I'm not smart enough to deal with it. [1] I'd like to point out, this was 2012; it was considered kind of outdated even at the time!