My dad would tell me how you could quit one factory on a Tues and walk down the road and have a job on Thursday back in the early 70s.
I wasn’t working in the 70s,but I’m sure your Dad was right.
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I don't know about that. I finished graduate school in 1972, and with a freshly-minted Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering I got a job, but a lot of my peers graduating at the same time did not have any offers.
The late 70s were going pretty good for employment, but the mid 80s sucked bilge water. 90s and later were good, but not spectacular. Only had one period of unemployment, but stagnant salaries were common.
Right now is about as good as I have ever seen it in my lifetime, but I have been retired for 10 years.