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On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 08:49:01 -0500, John H.
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On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:05:31 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:53:39 -0500, wrote:
Yup $435 a month and don't spend it all in one place ;-)
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What year was that? In 1965 I had a summer job with Western Electric
installing central office telephone equipment in Binghamton, NY. With
over time and allowances was taking home over $200/week - thought I'd
died and gone to heaven. It was not easy work but it sure paid well
for a summer job in the 60s.
So what. In 1965 I was making $72/month. But, my food, clothing and shelter were all
free. And I didn't have to pay for ammo.
Same here, that is why the $435 looked so good to me in 66
I was actually an E-3 with sea pay and pro-pay by the end of 65 so it
was a bit better tho. I think the whole package was still less than
$130 a month.
I worked for NCR and had graduated their computer school, so I was making
$120 a week when the draft notice caught up with me. So I joined the AF
reserves and want off the basic and tech school for 45 weeks. 6 weeks
basic and 39 weeks ILS and ground radio nav AIDS school. Making $65 a
month and paying my $62 car payment from savings. I did cut 10 weeks off
the basic electronics part of the course. The AF would let you challenge
the modules, and they set up a class for 8 of us, who knew electronics.
Then back to NCR at end of 1965 to making $500 a month. Which was decent.
Figure my first new car was a 1964 Chevy SS Impala hat was $3374 out the
door in November of 1963. In school pay for NCR was $95 a week and was $25
a week in a rooming house.