The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations

 from npr.org:

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060

"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."



We already have supermarkets with self-checkout registers, automated "customer service" lines for nearly every business or government agency you call. Kind of makes you think where we'll be in another 10-50 years. It's only a matter of time before we are living in a Jetson's like world, which in some respects could be a good thing, but not for the people who are unskilled at specific "trades" and even then...those guys may not even be safe.

and on that note, I'm going to go listen to some Jet Screamer: