Also a very different work culture, where back 30 years ago it was expected that you'd find a job/company and you'd stick with it for a long time (possibly your entire career) now it's very normal for companies and employees to expect someone to work for a company for maybe several years until they move on
Places would also hire someone with no experience and pay them acceptably are with reasonable raises that encouraged them to stay.
Now anyone who us going to pay you competitively is going to require some experience. And anyone who doesn't require experience will never pay you an adequate amount. I literally have the job I have now because they were willing to hire me even with my very limited work experience. I make 9$ an hour. And this is a job that required a high school diploma, a physical evaluation, I had to get CPR certified, I have to take medication manager class. I had go have ALICE training and fire saftey training. Yesterday I got to work at 8am and left at 8:45pm. I spend a majority of that time attempting to help disabled people improve their lives. I spent 20 minutes being told I was a bitch by a woman because I would not allow her to eat a cookie because her dentist has ordered nothing crunchy. She had dental implants fall out Friday night.
And yesterday was a pretty good day. There is a man I help who has anger issues. He has attacked staff. He beat a staff with a broken chair once. These are the risks involved with my job. There is usually only 1 staff with 5 residents. And staff are there in part for residents saftey. So if one of them attacks another of them, it's my job to intervene.
I work for a nonprofit organization whose primary source of income is government funding. I get paid 9$ an hour because it's what can be afforded. But I won't stay working this job once I have the experience needed to be hired elsewhere. I don't even dislike my job, it's just not worth doing it for 9$ an hour for the rest of my life.
You do realize that back than if you weren't doing a desk job or construction your wife still had to work.
My grandmother raised a family of two kids with a husband and still worked at a gas station for minimum wage. When her jerk of a husband left her boss gave her a raise and manger position she worked there till she retired.
My other grandmother worked as a music teacher while my grandfather worked at a steel mill.
But they did have 6 kids.
Look it wasn't this fantasy time where every girl had on a poodle skit and all boys had on Dickies.
It was just like now just everyone was more openly racist and cared alot more about looking like everyone else.
Wife's worked, people worried about bills, and movies didn't show that to well because no one at that time wanted to see a family struggle to get by they wanted movies that made them laugh or get a song stuck in their head.
The poverty level was lower in the 70's. It had a steep decline from 1960 to 1970.... maintained until about 1980 and then started to creep back up.
Life expectancy was 70 in 1970, it's currently 78. Given how many people smoked cigarettes back then vs now, you might as well slash that divide in half.
Now anyone who us going to pay you competitively is going to require some experience. And anyone who doesn't require experience will never pay you an adequate amount. I literally have the job I have now because they were willing to hire me even with my very limited work experience. I make 9$ an hour. And this is a job that required a high school diploma, a physical evaluation, I had to get CPR certified, I have to take medication manager class. I had go have ALICE training and fire saftey training. Yesterday I got to work at 8am and left at 8:45pm. I spend a majority of that time attempting to help disabled people improve their lives. I spent 20 minutes being told I was a bitch by a woman because I would not allow her to eat a cookie because her dentist has ordered nothing crunchy. She had dental implants fall out Friday night.
I work for a nonprofit organization whose primary source of income is government funding. I get paid 9$ an hour because it's what can be afforded. But I won't stay working this job once I have the experience needed to be hired elsewhere. I don't even dislike my job, it's just not worth doing it for 9$ an hour for the rest of my life.
My grandmother raised a family of two kids with a husband and still worked at a gas station for minimum wage. When her jerk of a husband left her boss gave her a raise and manger position she worked there till she retired.
My other grandmother worked as a music teacher while my grandfather worked at a steel mill.
But they did have 6 kids.
Look it wasn't this fantasy time where every girl had on a poodle skit and all boys had on Dickies.
It was just like now just everyone was more openly racist and cared alot more about looking like everyone else.
Wife's worked, people worried about bills, and movies didn't show that to well because no one at that time wanted to see a family struggle to get by they wanted movies that made them laugh or get a song stuck in their head.
Life expectancy was 70 in 1970, it's currently 78. Given how many people smoked cigarettes back then vs now, you might as well slash that divide in half.