I can’t remember the exact dollar figure, but I believe it would have been the day I was discharged from military service and I received my final paycheck along with what would be considered the military version of severance pay. All-told, it amounted to more than an entire year’s pay, and my plan was to pay off all debts that I owed so I could start civilian life with a clean financial slate. I was also planning to take advantage of the G.I. Bill and start taking full-time college classes immediately as opposed to working, so part of the money paid for six straight months of apartment rent and other necessities.
I hope this answers the question, even though I could quote an amount.
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I see. Well, one that day of which I wrote, approximately $19,000 in cash changed hands.
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I’d say somewhere around $100,000 (probably more). I did the bookkeeping for a large grocery store. As such, I handled a lot of cash - daily. I had to count and verify each till (12 of them), count and verify the safe (several thousand $$), and count, verify, strap and deposit large and “unneeded” paper money ($50’s, $100’s and sales). In addition, I had to count and verify all money that arrived via armored transport. When you handle that much money on a daily basis, it quickly loses its appeal. It’s just metal and paper.
The store did around $1,000,000 in sales per day (much more during the holidays), but some sales were check, debit/credit card (EFT), and various vouchers.
I thought the million-dollar figure was a typo.
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