Graduated and figured I should get a job. Honestly wasn't enthusiastic about the idea. Saw an ad in the paper. It may have mentioned C programming. I went and interviewed with two senior engineers. All they asked was do I know how to do TCP/IP. I said that I did and was working the next week. Honestly the coolest job I've had in my career. Colleagues were all engineers - mostly nuclear.
Huh. Boomers really did live their lives on tutorial mode.
Two decades before stack exchange and writing their own tools, yep.
"tutorial mode"? Not familiar with phrase. Also, not a boomer.