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Most jobs paid way more than minimum wage and shoe salesman was not a minimum wage job.
I worked at the deli in Wawa during that period and made 9/hr as a teenager making sandwiches, which required no training and was not a commissioned job.
50K a year was a good salary back then.
What happened is that they fucked everyone. Jobs that used to pay well started paying nothing and quality of everything you bought went down across the board while prices rose unabated for the next 30 years.
McDonalds actually tasted good back then, now they're probably using rats. Most of you just don't know any better, this shit life is all you have ever known and you think it's fine. lol
I worked at the deli in Wawa during that period and made 9/hr as a teenager making sandwiches, which required no training and was not a commissioned job.
You made 3 times the minimum wage in 1987 making sandwiches? I call bullshit.
Jobs that used to pay well started paying nothing.
There's no way you were old enough then to understand and believe this. Every fuckin' shit job paid $3.35 an hour. I had a job that paid that. Countless friends worked in all kinds of places from stupid stores in the mall (like shoe stores), full service gas stations (they still had those then), messengers, etc. $3.35 an hour buddy.
1990, close enough.
Nah, you're delusional.
Nobody made 3 dollars an hour except mexicans. The korean guy next door owned a cheese steak place paid me 5 dollars under the table on the weekend to take orders over the phone and ring people up. Even living at home as a kid, it wasn't really worthwhile, which is why I eventually I stopped going to both jobs.
A fella could make more money going to parties and cleaning out liquor cabinets when everyone passed out. One summer I found a garbage bag full of goodies buried in the woods after a party, made WAY more money than both of those jobs put together.
3 dollahs. The fuck would I do with that? lol
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