When you were 16?
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My father had passed away in December of 1965 when I was 15. He had been sick for 5 years and was gone from work for long stretches during this time and we were not able to afford much. After dad passed mom got $300/month Social Security benefits for the 4 of to live on. She took odd jobs cleaning other people’s homes.
The wife and I are both retired now and live quite well on our retirements funds. My life is infinitely better now than my teenage years by far.
The wife and I are both retired now and live quite well on our retirements funds. My life is infinitely better now than my teenage years by far.
Being an adult sucks. 16 is a great age. You can drink, make money, have the sex, play sports and have 0 responsibilities.
Shit! It’s 50 years later and I still have to go to school!
We lived in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in town and I attended one of the most prestigious public high schools in the state. I had good friends and dated several nice girls. But dad was a functional alcoholic who wasn’t always functional so…better now.
I'd say better then but you don't appreciate how easy life was at the time. I laugh when people say they wouldn't want to be 16 again. Sign me up for that shit now.
Made $3.35 an hour at McDonald’s on the mid 80’s. I think I topped out at $4.35 about 4 years later.
But things were cheaper.
I had an awesome time then and I’m having an awesome time now.
Honestly feel bad for the peaked in high school folks.
Honestly feel bad for the peaked in high school folks.
I’m not surprised… I’m guessing most 16yo girls are not very experienced with strap-ons.
I made more money at 16 than some adults today, but I wasn't having a better time than I am now.
You have never made seven dollars per hour because you’re a Marxist loser.
Can't say it was better or worse. That would be comparing apples to oranges. I was having a different time... roaming the streets of a dilapidated Key West and hanging around the commercial fishing docks pestering the wine-o's...
That’s a tough call. I did really enjoy life then. I was also well aware and conscious of how good life was with no responsibilities and almost total freedom. I knew it was temporary and soaked in every minute.
On the other hand, raising a family is much more fulfilling, and so life today is “better” in the sense that it is richer, more rewarding, and more meaningful.
So it is almost impossible to compare the two.
On the other hand, raising a family is much more fulfilling, and so life today is “better” in the sense that it is richer, more rewarding, and more meaningful.
So it is almost impossible to compare the two.
Well shit, if anyone should be able to identify a loser it's one like yourself.
If this country was Marxist, everybody would probably be making somewhere in the neighborhood of $40-$50 per hour.
I broke my femur before my 16th birthday and all I was thinking about when I was in high school was getting out of my childhood home/hometown as fast as I could. I'm way happier now.
Me neither. 2nd team all district. Didn't make first team until I was 17.
This is a great question.
1995. Working for my neighbor farmer as a hired hand. $8 hour. I was working all of the time doing stuff I loved and would make $500 a week. I had a shit ton of money stored in a NIKE shoe box.
Work, sports, and girls. What a great time.
What is strange is that it felt like time would stand still while in high school. An hour felt like eternity. Now the hours go by so fast
1995. Working for my neighbor farmer as a hired hand. $8 hour. I was working all of the time doing stuff I loved and would make $500 a week. I had a shit ton of money stored in a NIKE shoe box.
Work, sports, and girls. What a great time.
What is strange is that it felt like time would stand still while in high school. An hour felt like eternity. Now the hours go by so fast
Yeah, then was good, and now is good, but for different reasons pretty much across the board.
Became a machinist, making parts for those robots. lol.
That's because you are dissociating your life away until you die.
Much better now. My 16 year old self was extremely self centered/ narcissistic. Focused solely on pleasure seeking-- can't think of one " service project" I participated to benefit someone else. Mainly was outwardly behaving myself to avoid parents wrath but was actually quite rebellious. Probably thought I was pursuing " the good life" as society defined it then but was actually a pretty shallow approach.
I think 16 I was having more fun because I had more free time but I think I like my life now more than I did when I was 16.
When I was 16 I didn't have a girlfriend. I couldn't make my own decisions, I worked in a McDonalds and I didn't have very much confidence.
Now I have a wife (and 3 kids) I can make my own decisions and I work in an office. I have way more confidence now than I did at 16.
When I was 16 I didn't have a girlfriend. I couldn't make my own decisions, I worked in a McDonalds and I didn't have very much confidence.
Now I have a wife (and 3 kids) I can make my own decisions and I work in an office. I have way more confidence now than I did at 16.
16 was good, now is better, but I would give my left nut to be 19-21 years old and back in college. Not because life peaked in college, but that I would love to relive college again, especially knowing what I know now, and have my whole life in front of me again.
That said, I would not want to go back to the immediate post college years in my 20's where it was a financial struggle to build a life. Just yesterday I had my vehicle in the shop to get some work done. When I got the bill I didn't even flinch that it was $1200. Paid it and went on my way. Later in the day I thought about it, I'm financially stable and it feels good. If I had gotten that bill in my 20's I wouldn't have been able to sleep for a month as I figured out how I was going to juggle the house payment, bills, food, etc. and been worried about when my next payday was. Now I can't even tell you when payday is, it just gets deposited and I always have plenty of money. CSB.
That said, I would not want to go back to the immediate post college years in my 20's where it was a financial struggle to build a life. Just yesterday I had my vehicle in the shop to get some work done. When I got the bill I didn't even flinch that it was $1200. Paid it and went on my way. Later in the day I thought about it, I'm financially stable and it feels good. If I had gotten that bill in my 20's I wouldn't have been able to sleep for a month as I figured out how I was going to juggle the house payment, bills, food, etc. and been worried about when my next payday was. Now I can't even tell you when payday is, it just gets deposited and I always have plenty of money. CSB.
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