“I came of age during Jimmy Carter’s miserable administration. I made under $100 a week for the first year and maybe $125 the second year. It built up my work skills and toughened me up (well, somewhat). So, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for kids with an English degree who want $60,000 straight out of the box.”
Ahh a boomer who is so out of touch as to believe that is what kids want these days.
Let’s do some ‘math with boomers’.
100 a week in 1976 = 403.89 in 2012.
Over the course of a month - you made 1600 a month. That’s 19200 dollars a year.
I’m 30. I teach History at a Catholic school.
I make 750/month when school is in, less than half what you made in 1976. When school is out (4 months of the year), I work other jobs to pay the bills.
750 a month is the most I’ve ever made in my career.
Want to trade? I like your 150 a week a heck of a lot better than my 750 a month.
$750/mo? That would be about $4.50 an hour if you were working 40-hour weeks—or about 60% of the minimum wage!?!
Oh, bull. I live in New York City and believe me with rent and food, $100 bucks a week (that’s pretax in a highly taxed city) was starvation wages.
So you have to work a second job in summer! You chose to teach school so why complain?
Huh? That is $4.36 an hour for full time. You could make more babysitting or picking up pop bottles.