I thought to myself, “Well, I’m going to work here forever and I’ll just figure it out later and retire at 65, maybe before that!”
Shows the naivete and out of touch with reality attitude of the author.
Shows that he was 22 at the time and yes naive. As was I, as were many people.
And the story is of a kid in ‘94 when everyone was still pushing the BS about staying at companies long enough to show loyalty because youll never get hired again once youre labeled a job hopper.
It was around that time that some stories started suggesting hopping around but only for IT professionals where leaving was effectively a promotion and even then there were those who said is was still a bad idea.
The advice of everyone for himself and man the life boats was still a few years off.