WOW...I had no idea that some radio jobs were paying so little back then. So many other kinds of entry level jobs paid much better 10 years earlier!
Talking about what things once cost, is a light on how this nation has changed, over the years, vis-a-vis inflation and the devaluation of not just our currency, but also currencies all over the world.
Up until rather recent history, prices and salaries would fall during very bad recessions and more so during serious depressions ( of which there were many, a few far MORE "serious"/terrible that the '29 Crash! ) and people who blame the devaluation of our currency on going off THE GOLD STANDARD, do NOT know what they're talking about!
And in good times, yes, prices did rise, but not ever as crazily as they have done over the past 1/2 century!
When was the last time the word "INFLATION" was ever brought up? I can't remember it being talked about in many decades; can you? Yet here we are, and not just us, but in nations all over the globe, staring at very inflated prices for EVERYTHING...for NO good reason!
I don’t remember the word “inflation” any more than I hear the words “tort reform” pass the putrid lips of Paul Ryan in recent years.
My job at WOR was entry level (my first job) so, naturally, the pay was awful. It’s just that the work was so damned exhausting and the hours were long. Eventually, I was laid off which even my parents were too stupid to understand didn’t mean “fired.” It wasn’t until years later that I learned how fickle the radio business was. Despite everything, I loved being there. It was the time of Jean Shephard, Rambling with Gambling and, my favorites, Bob and Ray. Ray wasn’t friendly, btw.