One you thought was a fad, flash in the pain or would be obsolete by technology by now.
Cartoonist
Court Room Sketcher
Sign spinners
Firehouse priest
One you thought was a fad, flash in the pain or would be obsolete by technology by now.
Cartoonist
Court Room Sketcher
Sign spinners
Firehouse priest
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Pants half way down. First saw this in DC in 1989; have been waiting for this to go away since.
I’m not too surprised about cartoonists, there’s a thriving world of online strips, and of course comic books and manga.
Courtroom artists still exist because of the media fiasco created when a camera was allowed at OJ’s trial. People turned it into a circus. and you just know in today’s era of rampant malignant narcisissm we’d do the same thing all over again.
Bridge toll takers
Drummer
Ummmm, that’s a good one. I can’t think of one.
Sign spinners.
Home mail delivery 6 days a week. M,W,F would be more than adequate. We check our mailbox two or three times a week to clean out the junk mail. Everything important is digital now.
Influencer
Data Entry Clerks
Cashiers
Bank Tellers
Human Customer service on the phone. I mean you can’t ever get an AI anymore.
President
My husband was once deciding between two jobs. One was as sales manager to a new company that would be selling bottled water.
I laughed and told him to take the other job. I mean, who was going to buy bottled water??
Stenographers, court translators, ticket collectors on the Long Island Railroad, hard-copy newspaper delivery workers.
Gas station attendants.
Consultants
Travel agents
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Religion
Fluffer
Door to door sales.
Photographer. We all take pictures all the time, I’m amazed there are any professionals left.
Gas pumpers
The people who run the gas pump for you (Oregon, maybe elsewhere). What a stupid ass thing.
Priests
Aggregate Quality Control – Sampling Technician
Mudlarking
The person doing sign language alongside a speech or the National Anthem. Deaf people can read.
Travel agents
Travel agents
The Catholic Church after raping hundreds of thousands of kids.
Real estate agents
Mail delivery.
People who bring your order out to your car when you shop online. I figured that was a covid thing, but they’re still doing it
Firehouses don’t have priests, they have chaplains who are there to give last rites in the event the worst happens.
Travel planner?
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Real estate agents/brokers.
Elevator operator. There’s still a couple of those in the downtown Birmingham, Alabama city courthouse.
Six Sigma instructors.
Gas pump operator, looking at you NJ
People are still saying flabbergasted.
When I was at college I worked at a supermarket collecting and returning trollies (shopping carts), I was replaced by a coin deposit system. 🫤
Real estate agents. The Title company really does all the work. Everyone I know who has purchased in the past 5 years found their place online. Yes, the listing was placed online by an agent, but I’m surprised this hasn’t been replaced by another method.
IBM has a train engineer on staff to occasionally test and repair a locomotive in a building in upstate new york. He has a full machine shop to be able to make any parts he needs for the steam locomotive.
Why does that job exist?
It’s not a museum piece, it’s not open to the public, it’s not even attached to a train line anywhere. it’s just there.
COBOL, PASCAL, or FORTRAN expert. Old code that has never been changed, a narrowing niche of programmers who still can grok code written in the 1970s for government and medical equipment means some can command any price.
Priest
Onlyfans. Porn is online for free.
Influencers on social media. Hell, social media, in general.
Estate Agent
Middle management. 95% of them are completely unnecessary and useless.
Camera Film Developers
Well, I am a comic artist and I honestly dont know why you are surprised its still a thing? Comics are a wonderful mix between book and movie. You can choose to tell or show. Its also a great way to learn to read.
Im not sure how you mean it can be replaced by technology, but I cant pretend to not actually get a little sad.
Realtor.
I assumed they would go the way of the travel agent once the internet took off but somehow they still exist.
Professional mourners.
astrologists
Newspaper Delivery – no more “paper boys” on bikes, but my dad gets his paper delivered at 6am every morning 🤷♀️