During that time, the average duration for an IT pro to stay at a job was about 18 months because you could literally walk down the street for a 20% raise. You could be a troll and they would put you in a back room to sling code. Good times. Not so much now.OMG - I miss the mid80s - 90s..... it was nothing for us to pull in 40% margins. Industry average back then was over 30%. Today - you are lucky if you clear 15% pre-tax!The 80's were a great decade to make money. Even the early 90's were really good.Were no jobs? Where the heck did you live? The 80's were an awesome time to work.Parents are sharing what it cost them to give birth in America
‘It took us four years to pay off the birth of our twins,' one parent sharedwww.independent.co.uk
People are sharing the often exorbitant cost of giving birth in America after a viral TikTok video asked parents what age their child was by the time they were finally able to pay off their childbirth bills.
Last month, a woman who goes by the username @MsLilyFlowers on TikTok shared a clip to the platform asking: “How old was your baby when you paid off the hospital bill for having them? Mine is almost two.”
The TikTok, which has since been viewed more than 546,000 times, led to hundreds of responses from other parents, with many revealing that their hospital bills for giving birth also took years to pay off, especially for those whose children were in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Some eye watering figures there. No wonder abortion is such an explosive issue. How can you afford to have kids ?
A friend of mine and her husband had to declare bankruptcy because of the cost of the birth of their first child.
It was the 1980s when there were no jobs. Her husband found one but she was pregnant before he got the job so the insurance company labeled it "preexisting condition" and didn't pay a penny.
They tried to pay it all off but it was just too much so they declared bankruptcy.
I built my business in the late 80's and it was very lucrative.