[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I don’t understand. Doesn’t everybody’s parents give them $54K/yr? Times are tough.

Or from their Uncle Sam?

[pepsionice]

In the late 1970s, in my Air Force period, I worked with some E5 (been in 6 years) who was getting a monthly check for $1,000 from his parents.

They felt the AF was underpaying him.