I am totally disgruntled at what has happened to the money. The poverty line today is around $30,000 a year and no one can relate to what it was like to go to France for 3 months (and get married) on $500, or to earn $85 a week my first year married. Or what a thrill it was on every level when I finally made my first sale to the SEPost, my breakthrough, for $2500--more than half a year's pay. Or $15 a photo (when used) when I worked for the paper for $50 per article (when used). All of the emotion has gone out of even talking about such things, part of my very life, much less writing about them, for no one relates, no one understands, except a few of us who are left from way back then. In the 20s Fitzgerald wrote an article for the Post called "How to Live On $37,000 A Year," a sum so munificent that it still held up 30 years later when I was trying to live on $3800 with a young wife, no dishes or furniture yet, but with a salary considered not so bad.
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Kay
7/3/2014 06:27:58 am
I can relate, but to a lesser degree. I remember thinking when I was re-entering the workforce in the '90s that if I could earn a salary of $43,000 a year I would never ask for more. Now my children grumble when they aren't offered that as a starting salary. And it wasn't too many years before I forgot how it once seemed to be such a princely sum. I guess money, like everything else, is relative.
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