What did Barack Obama do in 1980?

Answer 1

After four years in New York City, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, Wesr Pullman and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988

Answer 2

In 1980, Barack Obama was 19 years old and a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles. There is an amusing photo-essay that includes pictures of him (he was still a smoker back then, as you will see). He also registered for the draft, which President Carter had restarted (it had been ended in 1975); documents show he registered in his home district in Honolulu, Hawaii, but as a student, he would not have been expected to serve at that time. Meanwhile, I enclose the link to the Time magazine photo-essay which contains photos of him before he was ever anybody famous.