[Paco]

I was working 45-50 hrs/week for $2.65/hour in 1978 before I went back to school. I earned about $125/week, I lived at home, had an $80/mo car payment and a few other personal expenses.

The money I made was primarily entertainment money. No one was raising a family off minimum wage.

She's so damn stupid if I were an Indian I'd sue her for giving me a bad name...

[sheana]

About that same time period I was single and lived alone. Was an account clerk in the Assessor’s office of our county. I remember my take home pay. $210 every 2 weeks. Couldn’t pay rent, make a car payment, and eat on that so I took a night job on top of my day job. Worked full time at night doing cocktails at a local night club. I was essentially working almost 80 hours a week.