>I remember when I started high school ( Jack Kennedy had just been elected ) saying that I wanted to go to college to become a corporate lawyer because I heard some of them made $10,000 a year !
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Now I know I'm younger than you because my first salary was $15,000 a year. Whoo boy! There were many new college grads at the time who made less.

Then I had to start paying bills with it <g>. Payroll was once a month and my personal measure of progress was how close to the end of the month the money ran out. No credit cards, so at that point I ate PB&J and whatever else was on hand until the check arrived. When that got down to only a day or two I knew I was getting somewhere.

I don't think it did me any harm.