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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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.
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Zackly, that was really good $$$ but hard dangerous work.
That kind of work makes a young man get old.
But it was good motivation to go back to school at night.