This episode features Career Counselor, released in 1982 by MMG Micro Software. It was developed by RLM Micro Systems, and programmed by Melvin Lebowitz.

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Career Counselor in ActionBooting

• Animated boot splash!

• Context sensative help! Main Menu

• Complete the items in any order, then List when done.

• Context sensative help. Interest/Skills Completion

• Careers Left decreases as you refine you your skills and interests.

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• All are poverty level in 2023+.
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• Help List Career Matches

• WIth tight interest and skills criteria.
• With loosened skills and interests criteria.

• Help Dictionary Job Lookup

• Good news!

• Error

• You need BASIC! Files

Atari DOS 2.0s is supplied, without DUP.SYS so you cant access the DOS interface.

• ManualI could not locate a copy.

Print OutputOutput for matching careers with highly restrictive interests and skills criteria:

S8E02-prt-1-List-SingleDownloadOutput for matching careers with looser interests and skills criteria:

S8E02-prt-1-List-MultipleDownloadOutput for matching careers with no interest or skills criteria:

S8E02-prt-1-List-AllDownloadPrint output from dictionary lookup:

S8E02-prt-2-DictDownloadShow Links* AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-career-counselor_897.html * Antic Podcast Interview w/Paul Laughton: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-61-ron-and-lynn-marcuse-productivity-applications * Wikipedia JTPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Training_Partnership_Act_of_1982 * DOT Info: https://occupationalinfo.org/

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.