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Before everyone freaks out ....
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:01:24 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:
wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 08:49:01 -0500, John H. wrote: 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 ;-) === 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. I am not sure if I could have tested out of anything in FT school but I never tried. It was easy to just coast and before long I had a tutor gig going. I got the E-5 barracks commander through the course and that was a good chip to have in my pocket. ;-) If he failed, he would be back in the fleet busted and with a 6 year commitment. ... and he was in trouble. For me FT school was an 18 week party. I don't remember any of it being particularly challenging. Of course going over the class material every night in the barracks with the boss and a couple other guys firmed it up in my head. I ended up taking notes for my "class" as much as for me. I concentrated on trying to dumb down what the instructor said and summarizing it in simple terms. |
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