What were you up to in 1976?

[Mixolydian]

I know most of you on here are old farts, so what were you doing? What did you do for work? for fun? have a family yet?

or were you still a kid?

 

[IronWing]

I was celebrating Bicentennial Minutes.

 

[tboo]

I think I was starting kindergarten that year.

 

[lxskllr]

About 5'10"

 

[stargazr]

Got my driver's license. I was working part-time, ended up going through an apprenticeship program after HS.

Why 1976?

 

[Engineer]

Turned 7 that year. 1st grade during the 1st half of the year....2nd grade the 2nd half.

 

[waggy]

hmm not much i suppose. i was only 3.

 

[Pardus]

Was playing Global Thermonuclear War.

 

[Mixolydian]

Why 1976?

Why not? It was the bicentennial. And a very long time ago.

 

[Muse]

I had a temp job working for the federal government. I commuted daily to the federal building in downtown San Francisco. I worked in the Department of Workman's Compensation Programs. I hated it, but it was a paycheck, although pretty meager. After one 3 month extension, I let it expire and sought a position in the private sector, bought a couple of nice business suits and interviewed at brokerages (had a new degree in math). Nobody offered me a job. My boss(es) at the Department of Workman's Compensation Programs tried to get me to apply for a permanent job there but I hated working there. It seemed to have no future in terms of being adventurous or fascinating. I wanted to reach out to the unknown, not settle for security and a paycheck.
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"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." -- Michael Levine

 

[Broheim]

I wasn't even hanging out in my dad's junk yet.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Pooping my pants was probably the highlight of my day

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Pooping my pants was probably the highlight of my day

You mean it still isn't the highlight of your day?

 

[dud]

Other than celebrating the bicentennial I remember driving over to the Kennedy Space Center with my dad and attending a special exhibit there called "Third Century America". It was amazing, you could walk around the VAB and go through some simplified astronaut training. It was a blast for a teenage kid heading into the Shuttle era:


http://marsblog.net/wp/2006/07/thirty-years-ago-this-week/

 

[BUTCH1]

Working at a company called "Boston Stove Co.", yes, appliances were once made in the US!. Fixing up my '67 Cougar XR7, hanging out around town, ect.

 

[Mixolydian]

Pooping my pants was probably the highlight of my day

That sounds like fun.

 

[BoomerD]

Working, had our first child, partying, living pretty well on about $6/hr. (gasoline was about 50-60 cents/gallon)

 

[Squisher]

A year out of high school. Working for a bank as a courier (electronic transfer of data was only done on a macro scale back then). Going to U of M to be an engineer. Discovering drugs also on a macro scale.

 

[Merad]

I was an egg hanging out in my mom's ovary.

 

[SKORPI0]

2nd year college B.S. student.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976

 

[JimmiG]

The world was not ready for my awesomeness in 1976. It would be another 8 years.

 

[ultimatebob]

I was probably doing a drum solo inside of my Mom's uterus, getting ready to be born the next year.

 

[olds]

Junior in high school. Banging my gf in the back of my 66 Mustang fastback

 

[EagleKeeper]

Spending $1-2M at a time pushing a button at a towed target from the back seat of a '76 fastback (Mach 2)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I wasn't even hanging out in my dad's junk yet.

This.