Pay Only 90 cents a Day

I had an experience right after the war to speak to cadets in the armouries at Moosejaw and one of the comical things, I had explained what I had done and the one young fellow said “you told us you made 90¢ a day” and I said “Yes.” and he said, “Well that was a mistake, it must have been 90 ¢ an hour.” and I said, “No, it was 90¢ a day.” and you know they’d just shake their heads and can’t believe it, but we managed very well on that, yeah. But there were, there’s been some that think we should have had an equal pay to men, but that wasn’t the case in those days and so you accepted what you had and you, you could make it up to 95¢ if you had long enough service. But we managed, everything was provided for us so... you know. And I think that it was a good lesson too because you can do without things and I, I think today, young people seem to want things. Everything that’s new on the market right instant on instead of aiming towards saving for it and, and we earned the hard way and well between the dirty thirties and the war years we, it was a good lesson for us.