re: Graduation theme. What was your salary at your first “real” job?

My first real job was the army, which pays a monthly salary. Seems like my first monthly paycheck as a buck private E1 was in the $400 ballpark after taxes. But that was almost 40 years ago.

My first civilian job came four years later as a warehouse worker. Staring pay was $5.50 an hour. Got my first raise only three months later, it was a whopping extra .05 cents per hour.