<p>You are a very wise person.</p>
<p>Good advice to anyone in college now would be very careful what you wish for from corporate America - the good old days are longgggg gone.</p>
<p>My old mentor ( board member of long standing Fortune 500 company) told me a few months ago that for most of his time the truth was that if they needed 4 people they had 7. Now if you need 7 people they have 3 and are trying to figure out how to cut one of those.</p>
<p>All retirement programs are changed to allow you to retire at 55 not because you want to but because you are used up by then.</p>
<p>My advice to anyone going into the big boy/gal corporate world is to keep your powder dry and get your sack as full as you can as quickly as you can.</p>
<p>These were good gigs back before the force reductions of the late 70s and early eighties. Now? </p>
<p>Not so much.</p>