I touched briefly on the conditions of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s here; in general, material life was decent for an urban Soviet citizen. There are a few major missteps in the 1960s and 1970s but these don't have piercing effects of bread lines or anything like that, though the economic and agricultural policies of Khrushchev do increase poverty somewhat. There was crime, homelessness, drug addiction, violence, and so on. As an urban officeworker you probably have a worse living standard than your Western counterpart (food, for example, swallowed immensely more of a Soviet budget than an American one, apartments were generally smaller, and suburbanization hadn't occurred/single family homes were quite uncommon), but you're not wanting for anything.

I do want to just touch this idea of the Soviet 'golden years,' though, as they actually mask serious problems--only between 1956 and 1962 did the Soviet Union really enjoy the liberalization of Khrushchev, and certainly throughout Brezhnev's reign (whatever its benefits) economic problems rose and political problems punctuated the last intimations of Khrushevian freedom, chiefly the show trial of Sinyavsky and, of course, the Prague Spring. Gorbachev refers to this era, and not unjustly, as the 'period of Stagnation.'