Our goal is conveying a short anecdote Miguel informed us about him trying to program a chess piece and his life as a computer operator.

During his time in the U.S, which was around the 1980s, the U.S was thriving economically. Non-farm payrolls increased by almost 20 million dollars. This at the time, was considered a groundbreaking improvement. There was also debate over the topics of "good jobs" and "bad jobs. The good jobs are the one's with high pay and the bad jobs with low pay. Furthermore, people contend that low-skill low-pay jobs was not suitable for decent living environments. This was a conception brought about by the changes of the numbers in the various categories of jobs. The main factor of the debate was based on cross-sectional and point-in-time estimates of employment. Cross -sectional data is a study of the population and is certain type of data that collects by observing many subjects.  Whereas Point-in-time is more focused on each individual.

Doing computer-related jobs in the 1980s provided people with a myriad of job opportunities. The implement of computer into homes was a distant dream in the 1980s it was unbelievable for many people that they could get a computer. People decided to start doing computer related job because of the thought the computer was going to be the future in the 2000s. There were 1.16 million jobs relating to computers in the US. in 1978 and expected to become 2.14 million in 1990. In all of the jobs relating to technology, computer operator was by far the largest group in the field of study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1981/12/20/jobs-growth-in-80s-linked-to-computer/a93ec635-24f7-4bfe-b18d-adfb7e39105c/
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1992/demo/p70-27.htmlhttps://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/a-brave-new-world-the-1980s-home-computer-boom/