What sort of person chose a career in computing in the mid-1960s? Well among other things, it seems, the sort of person who'd keep records like this. I think, from what's on some of the surrounding pages in this notebook, that the reason my dad did this, was to check the calculations of his tax and hopefully get a tax refund. Although I think he enjoyed this sort of activity, I can also imagine him thinking "one day we'll have machines to do all of this for us!"
I'm not sure why he went from a monthly figure to a weekly figure at the end of October. And I can't tell whether this was all done in one go, or whether he filled it in as he went, but I think that would mean more variation between the handwriting in the entries. We'll never really know.
I was born in the middle of this year, so I see that his weekly take-home pay was a whopping £13 1s 3d when I came squealing into the world. And although the benefit known as Family Allowance added 8 shillings a week to the household income, there was no maternity pay for my mother after she gave up work to have me. This wasn't as poverty stricken as it might sound though, as the average weekly wage for men was just over £16.
