I was reading an article my great grandpa wrote. he harvested corn for 50 cents a week, a week mind you. this was in the 1890s.... crazy. I make 9.25 an hour......
my first job 160 an hour, my last one was 18, thinking back i had more free money making 8 in the early 80's but more to the point, my old man told me how when he was a kid, things like premade bread and clothes where luxury items,
Yeah computers were for large corporations, corded dial phones, beta machines, camcorders that required the extra battery pack to run. Kids could go to the park and play and you felt safe, damn this is all in the wrong spot I bet....
Wages are all a matter of perspective. Cost of living in your area, your desires and limits of what you enjoy and lastly are you happy. I know a guy that is a cashier at a gas station and never wants more, he loves his job and does odd things for extra cash and is totally happy.
Don't lecture me. I couldn't care less about money. All I care about is having enough money to live modestly without having to depend on others. Unfortunately, the cost of living in itself is not exactly cheap.
Okay my bad I took the whole Damn Ryan bla bla bla wrong. I dont lecture, not being paid to be anyones parent on here and the job could not pay enough.
2 years ago I was living on an informal commune in southern cal, spending maybe $5 a day (including tabacco and hanging out at the coffee shop) and making about $40 a day collecting cans. now I've got an apartment and a decent job and I'll tell you what; if I could go back to the life I had in so-cal, or recreate it somewhere else, I probably would.
I dont know about corn harvesting but I do know that farmers only get 15 cents per hundred weight of milk in PA.......they used to get like 3 cents or something I cant remember I almost wanna look it up....
