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Eljay-Adobe • Edited

I've not been in that situation.

Even when I worked with antiquated technology, that in and of itself was not a motivating factor for me to look for another position.

What I did learn, after many years, is to consider my résumé carefully and omit any technology with which I was experienced, yet I did not want to work in anymore.

So MAI BusinessBASIC IV, PickBASIC, Pascal, Lisp, Java, Perl, Prolog, JavaScript, X11, MS-DOS, OS/2 are not mentioned.

You may (rightly so) point out that some of those antiquated technologies are obsolete. (And others on that list are still mainstream.) Yes, I agree... that's why I wouldn't want to get hired to work on them in some legacy environment!