I know I should be paying attention to the meat of the matter, but I was stuck on the fact that this man's life story was literally "I started in the mail room

I know I should be paying attention to the meat of the matter, but I was stuck on the fact that this man's life story was literally "I started in the mail room in the '70s" and I'm flabbergasted that there are people in the modern world who got jobs at the most prestigious newspaper in the world that way. It's like hearing "oh yeah I used to take the trolley to work for a nickel and we'd go see a talky after work" from a modern working-age human.