After High school I did not go straight to college-and earned $2.25/hr. Then, I went to college and with a B.A. got an oil company job as a "geophysicist" and earned about $30 k/yr (I have not earned that much since-and considering inflation, I have not earned half that much since). About 1980, there was a shortage of geoscientists, the price of oil was high, and the Gulf of Mexico (and other areas) were opened up to area-wide lease sales. There was an article in Time or Newsweek about 2 geologists-one talking to the other, who did not know whether to buy a condo in the caribbean or Hawaii, and the other said, why don't you buy both, so he did....stories like that got way too many students into Geology departments-and the enrollments were peaking in about 1984 or 1986, long after oil companies stopped hiring.....
Did pretty badly in the hockey game-we expected to be outclassed, but I was hoping that my line would do better-we did not score and they scored quite a few goals against us.....Chris