Reply #14: Construction laborer for $1.00 an hour (1960s), bailed hay, plowed a mule

[Elwood P Dowd]

for 10 hours a day on my father's farm, milked cows, picked cotton (manually and with a tractor), along with various other jobs from the late-50s to the late-60s.

When I was in college during the 60s, I had all sorts of nasty jobs to help pay the bills. Most were construction, mowing lawns, and farm work.

The most hated job I had was a draftee in the US Army 1970-72. Started at something like $110.00 a month as a private. Figured that was about 25 cents an hour. Discharged as a Sargent E-5 making about $300.00 a month.