I took as year off for my first born, too...... the company called me back when they were desperate for talent.... that's why I was on $50k + in 1988, rising to $100k+ four years later..... in those day's dollars, not now's dollars....  I was earning as much as a useless seat-warming politician does now - by sheer hard work, integrity and loyalty.

In 1988 you could buy a house in Sydney for $100k .... so work out for yourselves what my work was worth.... but I earned every cent.

No Far Ken childcare, either.

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 11^th, 2018 at 1:08am:


The purchasing power of a dollar is about 1/3 what it was then, so $100k would be around $300k now.  Not a bludge job, either, though I should have become a politician if I'd only known the perks.