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Gerald
09-03-16, 02:22 PM
Ah, modernity. As the modern world creates new, strange jobs each year, we also render some jobs obsolete. Some, like leech collectors, are better left behind. But who among us isn't a bit nostalgic — at least in theory — for a world that's a little less automated?
Click forward to see 16 jobs that you probably won't find advertised on LinkedIn any time soon.

http://www.sfgate.com/weird/article/careers-jobs-that-dont-exist-anymore-obsolete-9198294.php#photo-3796301

Clearly, we live in an automated world, and more jobs will be disappeared in the long term for the benefit of PC-related with the robots base.



Note:Published 3:19 am, Saturday, September 3, 2016
Oberon
09-03-16, 02:55 PM
It's PC gone wild I tells ya!
STEED
09-03-16, 04:15 PM
17. Call Centers, well that is to say when and if they close no one will miss them. :03:
em2nought
09-03-16, 04:24 PM
We'll need all those unemployed folks to replace the bees. :03: Just put a bunch of pokemons on almond trees and get it done. :D
fireftr18
09-03-16, 09:02 PM
My mom told us of a job missing from this list. "Honey Dipper." In cities, before the days of piped sewage, these were men who were paid to drain the pits of outhouses. Aparently, it was a nighttime job.
:help:
AndyJWest
09-03-16, 10:42 PM
My mom told us of a job missing from this list. "Honey Dipper." In cities, before the days of piped sewage, these were men who were paid to drain the pits of outhouses. Aparently, it was a nighttime job.
:help:

A very old profession, known in Tudor England as gong farmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_farmer

Horrible Histories take on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFQ32PpSV4
Onkel Neal
09-04-16, 02:20 AM
We'll need all those unemployed folks to replace the bees. :03: Just put a bunch of pokemons on almond trees and get it done. :D

:haha: Brilliant.
eddie
09-04-16, 02:32 AM
It's PC gone wild I tells ya!

Here's the next job that will be taken over by robotics or computers Oberon!! Self driving tractors, if you can believe it,lol


http://www.wsj.com/articles/farmer-show-visitors-marvel-scoff-at-self-driving-tractor-1472747625
Wolferz
09-04-16, 06:56 AM
Sonny and his ilk might dominate our future but,
will they be three laws safe?:timeout: