You better read it again...I'm the boomer and my step-dad made the $3600...minimum wage in 1960 was $1 and there weren't too many kids making more than the minimum in HS.
I worked in the fields in the summers and made more than minimum...'course, the harder you worked the more you made....funny how that worked.
Look I know life sucked for the Boomers. You guys had the longest boom and you still have the nerve to whine about us.
Life didn't suck; circumstances might have been a little sucky, times but it was a pretty good time.
Look, Obama’s one of you guys. So was Bush, so was Clinton.
Lessee, Obamarama was born in 1960, so he couldn't be one of us guys, except in the broadest sense of "boomer" and there is a world of difference between someone born in the 60's and someone born in the 40's and I doubt even he made 5K in 1960, despite his press.
The other two guys, yep...one flew twitchy a$$ jets in the Air Guard subject to deployment and the other one went to Qxford...me, I went to Viet Nam, Infantry and got the scars to prove it.
So, is there a point somewhere in there?
How about you quite riding us, and take a look in the mirror?
I just checked the mirror...I see a guy who worked in the fields beginning at age 12, and when I was older worked baling hay at a penny a bale...on a good day I could make 10 or 12 dollars.
My kids worked in the fields too for two reasons, one to give them incentive to study harder to overcome that life and to give them an appreciation for the value of honest labor and that no honest labor is demeaning.
I like what I see.
Do you like what you see in yours?
I'm not riding you; I don't even know you.
However, what job/work are you willing to do to feed, clothe and house yourself...no need to answer, it's a rhetorical.
“You better read it again...I’m the boomer and my step-dad made the $3600”
And I made about 5k last year after I got laid off. 5k is not all that far off of 3.6k and that was 50 years ago.
That’s the number I was after. Perhaps I could have been less fair to you and used the number that you made starting out, but I don’t think you want to go there.
‘I worked in the fields in the summers and made more than minimum...’course, the harder you worked the more you made....funny how that worked.’
I treeplanted when I was old enough, and before that worked in the fields brushing for minimum. Funny how it worked, that no matter how hard you worked, you got paid the same.
You see, I don’t get to choose the compensation, the employers choose this for us.
‘Life didn’t suck; circumstances might have been a little sucky, times but it was a pretty good time.’
Thank you. The situation is different for us, and part of that is because of the policies enacted by Boomers to make it more difficult.
‘Lessee, Obamarama was born in 1960, so he couldn’t be one of us guys, except in the broadest sense of “boomer” and there is a world of difference between someone born in the 60’s and someone born in the 40’s and I doubt even he made 5K in 1960, despite his press.’
I’m sorry, he’s still a Boomer. He’s far far closer to someone born in the 40’s than to any of us.
‘Do you like what you see in yours?’
Do I like my current situation? No. The question is what has to happen for me to change my situation? I got turned down for a manual labour position because as the fellow said, they had 100 applications for 20 positions.
‘However, what job/work are you willing to do to feed, clothe and house yourself...no need to answer, it’s a rhetorical.’
Whatever work I can get.