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Originally Posted by dewilson58
1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).
2) Your first "real full-time" job.
Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr
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part time: $2.00 per hour 1974, 1975 landscaping, mowing, raking
full time: $42,000 per year, 1980, only working 6 months per year per industry standards, Third deck officer aboard a Gulf Oil oil tanker going from West Coast to Gulf Coast to East Cost and to Puerto Rico.
BUT my rate of salary increase from there to retirement is exactly 3.0% per year, annualized rate.
CPI inflation over that time period: 2.9% per year, annualized rate, so basically, I just stayed in place, even after adding graduate school. I made lots of mistakes. . . employment and investment related, but have two great kids and my best friend as my wife and traveling partner.