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I stumbled across a list of jobs that are no longer in existence.  Switchboard Operators

  • Switchboard Operator
  • Video Store Clerk
  • Encyclopedia Seller
  • Typist
  • Projectionist
  • Soda Jerk
  • Linotype Operator
  • Human Computer
  • Pinsetter
  • Telegraph Operator
  • Gas Lamplighter
  • Iceman/woman

Then I wondered what jobs people are working today that will be gone within the next 10 years. Here are some that are already diminishing at an alarming rate.

  • Driver
  • Postal Worker
  • Dispatcher
  • Telemarketer
  • Travel Agent
  • Farmer
  • Cashier
  • Printer/Publisher
  • Sports Referee

Comments

Submitted by Liz_Saldana on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 23:05

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Liz Saldana

Though I respect and support people willing to work, I can't say I'd miss getting calls from telemarketers.
Rona Gura

Now I can't get rid of the picture in my head of Lily Tomlin playing a switchboard operator on Laughin. . .

Perhaps next week's blog can be a list of jobs that did not exist 20 years ago??
Fred Klein

I hope Blogger doesn’t make your list...
Shelley Simpson

If there are no farmers then none of the rest matters. As for referees, who cares?
Carly Bentley

Well, if a sector or job doesn’t have technology woven into the fiber of its product or service, it will be obsolete. I think blogs are safe, thankfully

Submitted by SoniaSaleh on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 10:49

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Sonia Saleh

Once upon a time I was a telex operator. And the question asked, what’s a telex? Not anymore.
Norman Spizz

Monbacks are also becoming obsolete. A monback is someone who stands behind a truck at a loading dock and yells monback
Louis Cappelli

I spent 6 summers in the National Guard as Communications Operator running a Switchboard just like this from the back of my duce and a half truck [ the old timers will know what kind of truck that is ], BRINGS BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES.

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