I see math isn't your strong suit. I started working in 1976 at the age of 14 at a local county airport as a lineman. Something else happened that year, too. Care to guess what it was? It was the election of Jimmy Carter, that's what. I graduated high school in 1980, smack dab in the middle of the Carter "malaise". Double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, a misery index that was quoted nightly on the news. Entry level jobs were almost non-existent. My first four years of college were spent working 3-4 part time jobs just to make ends meet. Please don't tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. I do because I lived and worked through it and it was a hell of a lot worse than it is now. It wasn't until Reagan's policies kicked in about the time earned my undergraduate degree in 1984 that I experienced a growing job market for the very first time. I was earning my graduate degree (self funded, I might add) along about the time the stock market crash of 1987 came along. Do you remember that? Do you remember the Dot-Com bomb? I was running a technology based business smack in the middle of that fiasco, too!
It's far better to ask questions if you are unsure of something as opposed to open your mouth with ridiculous statements and remove all doubt......
Why so defensive?
Yeah, I worked at a gas station through high school till I graduated in 1979. I admit it was fun durning the SECOND gas crisis to get to the station early in the morning and sit outside drinking coffee and having a donut while waiting for the clock to strike 6 so we could mosey out and remove the saw horses that blocked our drive. Cars lined the block waiting for us to open and get gas. Our allotment was usually gone my noon. So we'd shut the pumps off and turn away anybody that was still in line or tell them to stay till the next day.
I got bored with that so I joined the Army to kill people. Paid a whopping $419 a month but had great benefits.
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