The Way We Work: Jobs That Are Gone
For Labor Day, Patch looks at how jobs have changed during the last century.
This is a story about jobs that, by and large, simply don’t exist in the United States anymore. Or if they do, are holding on by a fiber-optic thread that will soon extinguish the occupation for good. Some jobs are history, like the iceman, who has not cometh since the Eisenhower Administration. And others – including the minimum wage Walmart “greeter” - were here just yesterday. A LESS DISPOSABLE TIME At The Sun newspaper of Baltimore – where many wonder if reporters will eventually go the way of the typewriter (and the skilled folks who repaired them) – there used to be an aged, exceedingly polite elevator operator named Barney Barney. [Yes, his first name and his last name were – inexplicably - the same.] Though extraordinary buildings …
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