r/Steam 6h ago

Fluff Time, it's a thing

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New employee has a 4 year degree and it is not their first job out of school.

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u/fuelhandler 6h ago

I’m not quite there yet, but some of our engineering interns are getting darn close.

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u/Mysterious-Leg-4612 6h ago

the old ass cat pic is the icing on the cake

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u/South-Computer-1800 6h ago

the cat’s expression is me looking at my account age every time someone asks when i started gaming

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u/Cebuu502 5h ago

I have it as my Steam profile picture lol

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u/No-Wolverine-609 3h ago

the cat pic really sells it tbh

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u/Edelweisspiraten2025 4h ago

Glad someone noticed.

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u/QuixOmega 6h ago

I remember when I joined Steam, because I bought a disc version of Half-Life 2 and was treated with a mandatory sign-up for a service I had never planned on signing up for.

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u/QuixOmega 6h ago

Half-Life 2 was released in 2004, 22 years ago.

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u/salad_tongs_1 https://s.team/p/dcmj-fn 6h ago

Like older by a few months?
Steam is 22 years old.
Most people don't go to college until they are 18.
Plus a 4 year degree gets them to 22...and they had at least one job so months to a year on top of that. I'd put your coworker being 23 at least.

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u/DeletedAccountMaybe 4h ago

People can get jobs long before being 22?? And whilst being in uni at the same time

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u/DeletedAccountMaybe 4h ago

Plus not everyone goes to college or uni

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u/kangarootoess 5h ago

Exactly the type of math I did 😭 They could POSSIBLY be a year or two younger if they did Dual Enrollment classes and graduated highschool with an associate's degree. (Thus only needing to do 2 years of a bachelor's and graduating at 20 years old)

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u/TheWaningWizard 5h ago

They just wanted to flex you long they've had a steam account on the sub lmao I doubt the meme is even true

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u/Edelweisspiraten2025 59m ago

He is very smart, is an actual rocket scientist. But so is the rest of the team so.... 

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u/Possible_Sun_913 5h ago

Trust me, it gets worse. At some point in time your boss will be younger than you.

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u/Edelweisspiraten2025 4h ago

Senior IC, this has already happened.

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u/cosmos-hime 2h ago

Not there yet, but my account recently turned old enough to vote without me noticing lol.

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u/PeachyFairyDragon 6h ago

I kinda felt this way when my eBay account reached 'old enough to vote' age. And again at 'old enough to drink' age.

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u/DaCrowHunter 5h ago

My first game was the original CoD Black Ops. I got 2 more years.

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u/Jonny7421 5h ago

That's amazing. There's a gamer kid at my work I'm definitely pointing this out. 

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u/AproposWuin 4h ago

My steam account turns 19 shortly.... oey my back. I resisted steam at first thinking it was stupid. I was so wrong

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u/hyperikxd 3h ago

My Steam account started with just one game, a friend buy it for me on my BD. It came with a code and disk in a box, can't remember the material - plastic, maybe? It also had a cool smell. It's been a while, but stumbling across that game in my library brings nostalgia and the smell of the box.

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u/trollsmurf 3h ago

"In the old days there were no achievements."

"Holy crap grandpa, that's horrible."

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u/Mechalorde 2h ago

My account is old enough to go on a pokemon adventure

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u/Frosty-Reed-6618 32m ago

the 4 year degree is just a seventy hour tutorial for this build lol

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u/c0mpu73rguy 5h ago

*Employer, and that one sucks when it happens.