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Originally Posted by sammyg2
The last (and only) time i was in El Centro was October 1981.
It was my first job as a millwright and we went down there to rebuild a couple of large compressors.
4 weeks of working 6 days week 12 hours a day, I was 20 yo and making $14.29 an hour with all that OT, thought I was rich.
I remember hanging out in a bar called the Buick after work.
I've been kicked into better dives.
That was a long time ago, maybe things have changed. Ya think?
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Dang, $14.29 per hour was good coin in 1981. That is like $42.90 per hour now. For a 20 year old that is real damn good. That would be just over 3K per week now. $160K per year yea that is good money. Of course you would be nuts to try to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week for a year straight.
One of my friends was desperate broke, about to loose his house, and marriage. He went to work on an offshore oil rig. Within a year he was out of debt except his mortgage. They upgraded the house, and he worked off shore one more year, paid that off, and had enough cash to start his own business.