As part of my "organizational efforts" -- one of my many unadventurous, prosaic projects -- I now have all my old tax paperwork in one place. This became possible when I came across the oldest bundle, now labeled "1981-1982 & 1984-1988 Taxes". I'm still holding on to them, despite one of my other projects being the destruction of old bills -- you know, credit card, electric company, etc. Before I started Project Bill Destruction, I still had them all, going back to 1987, with a couple random earlier receipts thrown in from the time before credit cards and living on my own. Those are slowing disappearing with the help of a shredder and a data management program I'm continually updating for entering and retrieving all that info from a MySQL database.
Anyway, the point was the taxes. I've got 29 years of tax records counting the latest 2010 return. (There wasn't any income for 1983.) Adjusted Gross Income for 1981? $778. Party on. Granted, that wasn't a whole year of employment. Still, I remember it being $3.80 an hour -- more than minimum wage!
And speaking of 1983, that was part of the longest gap of not working I've ever had. (Knock on wood.) 17 months, I'm estimating, from the end of my high school co-op job until my college co-op job started. (Current active streak is at 11.5 months.)
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