31 Jobs That Were Lost to History
‘Door-to-door Encyclopedia salesperson’
I’m told, as a writer, that I should be terrified of A.I. taking my job. Given how easy it is to clock what is obviously A.I. writing, and its absurd, bordering on libelous grasp of the truth? I’m not exactly shaking in my boots. Though it could take one earnings report to change that.
Throughout history, though, there are many jobs that have been made completely obsolete. Many of them, because of automation. Some of them, because it turns out the job was basically “get cancer in a basement,” and even without a union, that doesn’t fly.
Redditors have collected some of the many long-gone jobs that, unfortunately, are hiring nevermore.