The day when you start to enter the career environment, your career path seems to be unknown. Great excitement is taking hold of you as you cannot wait to hold the first piece of paper that indicates you income received at the end of the calendar month. Then one day you are been reminded by the best wishes from your team members in the same company how long you are been working and realizing you are now the longest person working in the department. Many decision was made either positive or negative by me which left it marks in my career.
I know how you feel. Lots of forks in the road with my career. Plenty of good and bad decisions. That first check seems like a long time ago!