Better pay in the 70s/80s

I lived in Rosebud Texas in the 80s.Home payments $200.00 a month.Now I live in Savannah Ga and thankful my home's paid for.As everything is sky high there.

 

You made less than $800/week working a bunch of hours and make less now? Because I work about 40hrs a week and make well more than $800/wk and have for atleast the last 10yrs.

 

My back is gone. I have said in the past that I don't take very much medicine if at all this year for it. However there are days that the spine is really bad. We are discussing with the doctors to essentialy take the group of 9 signal nerves, slash them and burn them out. It will take a year for the body to rebuild the connection give or take.

We just don't know yet. Part of the problem with the spine being gone, I tend to overdo it physically in work like a 21 year old. Pay for it the next two weeks until the inflammation goes down. Sometimes at the toilet. We just havent figure that out yet. We are working on it.

 

Even if he worked 40 hours he still could afford a nicer home/car/ and have more money in his pocket than we do today at 800 a week. I did similar work back then in construction. O/T was easy actually. Have to consider no instant communication. Issue at job site, TOP had to run into town and figure it out. What a time

 

Oh I agree. I started and excavation co in 2005 with a Bobcat skidsteer, an F250 and a flatbed trailer. That machine paid for itself in a matter of months, paid for my truck, and put $ in my pocket. I eventually got to the point when I moved to Tx that I had the skidsteer, a Case backhoe and Fld dump truck and was clearing over a grand a day most weeks with very few breakdowns costing very little. But dealing with customers, other contractors, and all the bs burned me out. I thought trucking was a better avenue but started out running hotshot. Learned the hard way that I didn't know #### about this industry and realized I needed to be in someone else's truck to learn what I needed. But I dont make anywhere near what I did in construction.

I also saw what 9/11 and the housing market crash in 08 did to the economy. Such a different world now than 20yrs ago. And now we're about to see something else major happen and its not going to be good.

 

An excavator is like an old girlfriend. You kinda hate her, but you kinda love her

 

Actually things were not as cheap as people think they were 40 years ago.
Gas for instance is cheaper now than it was back then and I’m talking about before this economic crash. It may have been .90 cents a gallon back in 1979 but the average wage was around $6-10 an hour. Plus a car needed tune ups and brakes a lot more often than today’s cars.