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The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations

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NPR: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations

As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.

Operators 

Click on the link to see the slide show.

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  1. victorclaar.blogspot.com Avatar
    victorclaar.blogspot.com

    These are awesome.
    They should have included two of my favorites — and ones we briefly mention in Economics in Christian Perspective — cooper and millwright.
    The audio clips are marvelous in this feature, and really enrich it.

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