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Why did it make sense then?

• michaelochurch 14y ago
  Why did it make sense then? Age and maturity. Most people didn't even finish high school and started work at about 15. "5 years of experience" meant you were getting a 20-year-old-- likely, for a working-class male before 1960, to have settled down and gotten married, and to either have a child or be planning to have one.
  • jeremysmyth 14y ago
    In the days of guilded craftsmen, apprentices weren't allowed marry.