You know you're a Redneck 80's Office Employee when ....

You know you're a redneck 80's office employee when you had to make space on your desk for a box as large as your television set at home, with cables dangling between your legs, and it had connotations it will replace you eventually within the near future, so be prepared to say goodbye to your pension plan and any security of home ownership, livelihood, existence.

The robots were coming and everything was going to be run by computers.   And then they would say, "but the computers need to be operated by humans - so no one is losing their jobs".  And we all believed them.

In a lot of ways the computer industry created a ton of jobs, but not for those of us who were already in our 20's working in the 80's.

MTV and music videos, for example, didn't appear on television until 1981, with the first music video shown, "Video Killed the Radio Star" and the second by Pat Benatar "You Better Run".  I am a fan of neither.

I am a fan of pre-MTV video music, which are now presented in a 'one frame pictorial' of an album cover in YouTube, or you can choose the "live" version of said band and song, albeit 30 years later, which seems sort of depressing because the band is all old and fat and they have grey hair and they're old and fat.

And they use to say, "you'll never grow old".  And we all believed them.

This is just a generalization - some bands have remarkably renewed themselves, for example, The Rolling Stones appearing this summer with their new "50 & Counting" North American Tour. I must say, Mick's not fat, but he's not the prettiest girl at the dance either.



I am a big fan of Chilliwack - from years gone back, yet I still love their music. There are few images of them in the olden days, and not much posted on YouTube - after all, they were who they were pre-computers, pre-Windows, pre-FB, pre-iPhones .... following are links to songs I enjoyed in my youth, and of course, in my extended youth.