2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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Actually, underemployment was a very big issue in the '70s and on into the '80s. There were a lot of people working part time who wanted full time work and the jobs just weren't there. I spent a good three years after getting out of school trying to find *any kind of* full time work, but with a 25 percent local unemployment rate I was screwed. My first job after graduation was sorting empty soda bottles in a leaky shed behind a grocery store, up to my ankles in stagnant water, stale beer, and flies. If I was lucky I got 20 hours a week at $3.35 an hour. I considered that pretty damn "underemployed."
My mother started the seventies working fifteen hours a week as a cook in a nursing home, and we had to go on welfare because she couldn't get anything better than that. Underemployment.
:bolt:the 60s... $1.69 an hour...sorting empty soda bottles in back sheds of saloons / beer joints.
There's nothing quite like the aroma of stale beer bottles in the hot summer time. uke:
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