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From about 13-16 I cut yards around the neighborhood for $2 per.
In high school during the summer, (‘66, ‘67, ‘68) worked as a “lot boy” at a car dealership, detailing used cars, sweeping, starting all the cars in the morning, delivering and picking up cars and basically being the gopher, making minimum wage which was $1.10 an hour.
In NROTC we got books, tuition and a $50/mo. stipend. Had to do three, six week summer training sessions (two cruises and a combined aviation/USMC indoc) where we were paid E-5 pay I think, or about $275/mo.
IIRC, in ‘72 as a newly commissioned, married Ensign with flight pay it was just under $8000 gross for the year. I think our first apartment we rented in Pensacola was $125/mo. With just the two of us we felt pretty well off. 😊
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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First job in HS as sophomore making $2.25 per hour bagging groceries. Of course, before that I’d been bucking hay, driving a tractor and chasing cows for the old man for free room and board since about the age of 8. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Minimum wage....$1.60/hr.! Married with a kid on the way! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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1.65 hr in 1973 after high school in a textile mill. Been a machinist since 76. Retiring Dec 31 at 65.
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$150/wk as a field engineer for a construction company in Charleston, SC. Then a little raise in the Army for four years. Came out and was making $16,000/yr in 1977. Hit the jackpot and went to Iran with Fluor on an oil refinery at about $48K a year. Just before the Ayatollah came back. Everyone scooted then. Hi cruzer, you may have known my Dad. He ran the show for Fluor in Iran from 1964 until after the Shah fell. His initials were TJR. I graduated from the Tehran American School and worked summers in Abadan and Bandur Mashur. Small world. mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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About $34,000/yr when I started back in 1981.
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25K per year as a chemist, supplemented with substitute teaching and national guard duty until I got a raise by becoming a teacher. My wife and I both worked and paid for daycare until I went active duty and made more than both of us combined, with better benefits. She stayed home and raised the kids after that.
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$8,500 per year in 1976 washing dirty laundry. Thought I was in tall cotton a year later when I got a 10% raise to $9,300 per year. And the company paid 100% of benefits cost !
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$28k a year as a 2ndLT in the Marine Corps in 1991 $15,120 as an Ensign in 1987 + $50 a month flight pay so $15,720 total a year. I was single, lived on Perdido Key within an easy walk to the Floribama , had a sports car and flew jets for a living. It's been downhill since then. Less than $10K as a 2LT in 1977. Jimmy Carter didn't pay much and most of our equipment was worn out. My platoon anti-tank weapons were M-40 106mm Recoilless rifles that would probably have bounced off the Soviet T-62s that were on the other side of the Fulda Gap. Ronald Reagan got us paid a little better and we got TOWs to replace the M-40s.
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$1.65 an hour working during high school, 1973 or 74. Maybe $2.25 an hour in 1975.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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I netted around $270/mo as a PV1.
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$77.00 per month plus 3 hots and a bunk!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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$134 a month as an E1 in 1971.
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$7.05 per hour as an apprentice machinist in 1985.
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"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes."
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Campfire 'Bwana
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$22,000.00 yr in 1999
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Camp is where you make it.
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Self employed in 1963. Not much.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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$1.25/hr driving the tractor/raking hay, USDA cattle research station, I was 16 at the time, later $1.85/hr State Park Life Guard....................
After high school 12-15K..... wife didn't marry for money!
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"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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I think we all know a couple of guys here that paid their bosses just to let them work for them, and then they make so danged much money they could retire @ 45 and live like the rest of you only wish you could...
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About $4.50 at 17yrs old in '89. Cigarettes were .85¢ and gas under a buck though so in today's $$ that would be $25/hr.
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