Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

I made $5/hr roofing in the mid-'80s (working alongside illegals and convicts), and that was a FUCKTON more than the other HS kids slinging icecream or working a cash register. It was "real" hard work, but I loved the fact that I worked as hard as the men and got paid for it. In fact, some of them didn't like me because of how hard I worked. My paychecks had massive girth for a 14 y/o. I had knives, swords, Jivaro Blowguns, and all sorts of geedunk shit out of the back of Soldier of Fortune that ya'll could only look at the pitcher and dream about.:p
Worked as a concrete laborer for 2.50/hour in 1966
Then min wage was 1.62/hr in my AO

I did pretty well
 
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Just got these from Amazon. I am headed down to WalMart to the produce section.

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My sister was molested at age 9. She had a terrible life trying to deal with that trauma for the next 30 years and died homeless of an overdose. At her funeral, my little bro, who is often very profound, said "She was killed long before she died."

I'm DEFINITELY for child molestation/rape death penalty. Swift and final.
One of the few things they do well, the Saudi’s usually solve that problem within a month of the crime.
 
You're trying to compare todays non union shops against them.
Nope, just providing some wage data I found for 1975.

I'm assuming the image you pasted was for 2024. I have no idea what bearing that has on 1975-1978 facts.

I found that same information for 2024 but it wasn't relevant to a 1978 discussion ... here, let me add the link to where you copied the image.

 
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Your other "facts" were wrong too.

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LOLOLLOLOLLOL

They're not MY facts. I posted the links to everything, even your irrelevant facts about 2024 salaries which you just posted again which is SALARIED not HOURLY.

Which one are you claiming? You were a salaried worker or an hourly wage worker?
 
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Oh boohoo, somebody call the fucking whaaa mbulance
I’ve blocked just a couple window lickers that can’t take a hint from our resident sommelier of cellulite @Dirty D

The irony is that these soulless muppets lack any self-awareness to consider they’ve earned a spot on my very short shit list. In other words, if you think i may have blocked you: congrats, you’re not.
 
I was born in 1956.....graduated HS and started running heavy equipment (Operating Engineers), but decided that wasn't a career move. Started a career, got married, looked at houses and was amazed at the $$$ for what we were getting. SO, I decided to build my own house, figuring I could get twice, or triple the house, for the same amount of $$$. Found some property, designed and drew the blue prints up, and started building. Remember, I was working 40-50 hrs/week AND building a house on my weekends. Decided to save $$$ by building the garage first and setting it up like a studio....we lived in that 3+ yrs while I finished the 1st floor. We moved into the house (1st floor) while I finished the 2nd floor. 2150 sq. ft, split level....I did everything but the sheetrock/texturing and the cabinets. Got it totally finished 7 yrs later. The reason for this story? AFTER I finished the house, several guys I worked with commented on how nice it was to 'have money' to afford something like what I was living in, conveniently forgetting I BUILT it! Told them to go fuck themselves. They said I was an asshole! No one decided to do it my way.....they just wanted to bellyache, bitch, moan, whine, complain about NOT having what I had.

My point.....
 
It's my birthday so my wife bought me scallops for dinner because she knows it's my favorite. Of course she doesn't know how to cook them and cannot be trusted around cast iron or carbon steel pans so here I am cooking my own birthday dinner. Apple pie for dessert.

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Sounds like my wife. Don’t even let her look at the cast iron pans.