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Live music was popular until the mid-80s...I was a musician and actually got paid!! An awful lot!!! That was the good ole day.

12 years ago. Rating: 11
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Anything relating to finance,more millionaires were created in the USA in the 80s than at anytime before, or since, and as Colleen says,the computer tech industry created a good few of them too.

12 years ago. Rating: 10
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Hair spray or VCR salesman.

12 years ago. Rating: 9
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Computer tech and programmer. It was the #1 job at the time because everyone believed you could become rich doing it. Computers were fast becoming affordable for the average household so there was a demand for techs. 

12 years ago. Rating: 8
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Teaching, counseling, clerical, pot growing (in northern California ). 

10 years ago. Rating: 5
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Yep,all of the above, my first husband trained as a programmer and aeronautical engineer, I distinctly remember pumping petrol so we could afford to, I studied accountancy only to fail 3rd year on a bottle of port (or maybe several)!!!!! 

12 years ago. Rating: 5
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http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-14_u-189_t-509_c-1886/1980s-decade-in-context/nsw/history/australia-s-social-and-cultural-history-in-the-post-war-period/social-and-cultural-features-of-the-1980s    The 80's were not all that good for Aussie..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

10 years ago. Rating: 2
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There were thousands of I T  jobs in Mich around in 1985, b/c Ross Pierot moved all his people up here from  Texas and other parts of the south , to work at his company --EDS, which he sold to G M in 1984. You couldn't hardly find an apartment opening anywhere !  .........there were so many new people here in the Det area.

EDS was  Electronic Data Systems.

10 years ago. Rating: 2
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