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In reply to the discussion: To those DU'ers who lived through the "Golden Age of Capitalism" (1940s to 1970s)-some questions... [View all]DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)the mid 60s to mid 70s were a great time for me. i married in '60 -- had a child in '61 -- a few months before my 20th birthday. we divorced in early '67 and i sowed my wild oats. fortunately i had family who took care of my son when i worked and partied. i met my second husband 8/70. he had been with IBM for a year. he worked his way up from computer operator to systems engineer. we struggled in the beginning but finally realized the american dream. he passed a year ago, but i'm collecting his pension and got his 401k. i hadn't worked for 23 years because of health problems, but we did okay. there was a time back in new york where we did spend too much money. we realized our error and changed it. by the time we moved to phoenix we had saved enough money to put 20% down on a really nice house.
when hubby passed he had been with IBM for almost 43 years and we were together for almost 42.