| Home |
| Search |
| Today's Posts |
|
|
|
#2
posted to rec.boats
|
|||
|
|||
Boating on a budget? That's for me!
On 1/6/2012 4:03 PM, Happy John wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:01:34 -0500, wrote: On 1/6/2012 9:22 AM, Oscar wrote: On 1/6/2012 12:02 AM, Califbill wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:06:48 -0500, X ` Man wrote: On 1/5/12 12:49 PM, wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:58:33 -0500, X ` Man wrote: I don't know what the average paycheck was back then. In the 50s my father made about $5,000-6000 a year as a GS11 in the government That GS11 is probably about 12x that now and gas is 17x In 1963, at a summer job through the Teamsters, I was earning about $7.00 an hour loading skids of razor blades and shaving cream onto semi-truck trailers. It was a semi-skilled job (I ran a forklift), so probably paid below the "average" paycheck in those days. It was higher than many of the workers at the factory, but lower than the guys who set up and maintained the machinery. Shick used to sell us packages of blades for a nickel each...that sure deterred theft. I'd load up before the semester started and then resell the blades on campus for half the price at the local markets. :) I also sold and delivered doughnuts, picked up drycleaning and delivered pizzas, though not all at the same time. College was cheap back then and it was not difficult to pay most of your own expenses. I was a Teamster in 1963, making a third of that. You must had a heluva contract. I was only making $2.50 an hour at IBM in 1966 ============================= Seems like Harry raked in the money. 1964 in school apprentice for NCR was $95 a week. When I graduated 36 weeks school I made $120 a week. Very good pay. My girlfriend at the time was an RN and and assistant head nurse for the orthopedic floor and made $376 a month. Me thinks an apprentice forklift driver was making a lot less than $210 / week. My stepfather was a college Prof. and made about $16k a year. If you want to be the best at everything you need to start early in life. There is no way he was making 7 an hour running a forklift in 1963... sorry... My dad was also a Teamster in 63, in a warehouse, running a forklift, had been with the union nearly 20 years, had seniority, and probably made about 1.50-2.00 per hour at the most. Hell, I was making more than that as a fry-cook at Garst's Drive-In in Sedalia, MO, in 1963. You must have your dad's pay way off. Guess so... can't ask him now though. |
|
#3
posted to rec.boats
|
|||
|
|||
|
Boating on a budget? That's for me!
On Jan 6, 3:15*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:03:09 -0500, Happy John wrote: Hell, I was making more than that as a fry-cook at Garst's Drive-In in Sedalia, MO, in 1963. You must have your dad's pay way off. Let's just agree that there was even a huge wage disparity in 1963 too and go boating! The boat is in the water, cooler packed and I am casting off as soon as my wife gets home I feel for you! |
|
#4
posted to rec.boats
|
|||
|
|||
|
Boating on a budget? That's for me!
|
| Reply |
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Forum | |||
| Do you have an electrical budget? | Cruising | |||
| Do you have an electrical budget? | Electronics | |||
| There goes the budget | General | |||
| US Sailing BUDGET | ASA | |||
| Toilet on a budget | Cruising | |||
Hybrid Mode
