Bench chemist? Haven't I seen you on "Breaking Bad" ? :-)
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart MacMillan" <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Gasoline $$ :-(

Yeah, my experience was similar.  In 1969 when I got my first real "job"
(just over broke) as a newly minted college grad, I made $6500/year as a
bench chemist.  That's $38k/year today.  Guess what?  There has been no real
wage growth since 1969!

Stuart
Quit being a chemist in 1976

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Dave Mcneely
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:19 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Gasoline $$ :-(

Well, things change, don't they?  I drove my mother's Rambler American to
commute to college in the 1960s.  Gas was $0.18 per gallon, the car got 25
mpg, excellent for the time.  A ten gallon fill up cost $1.80.  The fifty
mile round trip required 2 fill ups a week, making the gas for my commute
$3.60 for the week.

My college tuition for a semester was $50, books cost $3-5 a pop, and I
could get lunch in the college cafeteria for $1.25.

I could take my date to dinner at a decent place plus a movie for $8.  Beer
was $1.50 a six pack, or $1.10 if one was willing to brave the wrong side of
the river (but that $0.40 mattered to me and my compadres of the time).

Of course, I worked for $1.25 an hour refueling airplanes.

mcneely

---- Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:
> I remember when I could drive to work all week for less then $13.00!
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 12:32 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Gasoline $$ :-(
>
> On the way home from work last night I stopped for gas, had $13 in my
> wallet. That put 3 gallons in my bus @ $4.259 ea...
> Sad times but still glad gas is available.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> becida@comcast.net
> Western Washington State, USA
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