Oh yes the economy was so good during the Carter years I worked at a construction company office during the day and worked at a bar at night- just to support myself. One of my daughters is working two jobs right now so it is still being done.
I learned something though- the worse the economy is the more greatful one should be to have a job.
Our economy is light years different and structurally worse than the Carter years. Carter was unable to wreck America through his bumbling leftism. But at least under Carter we were not running huge trade deficits. We manufactured a lot more of what we consumed. We imported a lot less oil. We didn’t have such huge Federal, state and consumer debt. We did not try and juice the economy via internet bubbles and real estate bubbles. We didn’t have a Fed Reserve with a zero rate interest policy
America was basically sound so RR was able to make correct the Jimmy Carter mistakes and put us on an upward trajectory