grabbing the wheel and jerking hard left on the conversation, but this comment struck me as funny.
rite?? like getting a 10K raise in 2 years is a rite of passage that we should all be expecting to happen to all of us, right?
I actually got a 10k raise in one company, but only because I really didn't earn enough before. When I quit a year later anyway for another job (which offered me another 14k raise), my employer made a counter-offer of 30k. I did not take it, but at least it gave me a perspective how much I apparently was really worth to them.
The author was amused at his younger self’s naïveté and entitlement in assuming such a raise was a given and planning it on a timeline app.
So I think you are actually in agreement.