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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 30, 2020 4:13:43 GMT
COVID-19 got me pondering stuff like this.
I think I've had 8 committed jobs in my lifetime. I can say flat that 3 no longer exist; 1 of which became obsolete at an existing employer, & 2 that no longer exist at all.
My roles at another 2 of them are vastly different today than my time there prior.
3 remaining gigs, all 3 of which have been within the past 2 years (I left one side gig for another, currently 4 days with one, 2 another).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 5:12:03 GMT
i don't expect to spin cotton candy or wait tables again
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Sept 30, 2020 20:07:05 GMT
None. Only technology has changed, which I love! Makes working so much easier.
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Post by moonchild on Oct 1, 2020 0:06:36 GMT
I'm a production scheduler. I began as a receiving clerk and an inventory clerk. In college I was a liquor store clerk on the weekends. All those jobs still exist. In high school I did get a job selling Fuller Brush door to door. I don't think that job exists anymore. Lol. My mom bought from Fuller brush when we lived in Whittier. We still have one of their mirrors in our bathroom I did housecleaning the longest and I think people will always hire people to clean their house Worked retail and that will always be around
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Post by Nora on Oct 1, 2020 0:20:50 GMT
None. Only technology has changed, which I love! Makes working so much easier. same for me. all my previous jobs still exist. and in pretty much the same shape and form. in chronilogical order I was a bagel shop clerk, then a cocktail waitress, then club manager, then teacher, then i worked for the cops then became a lawyer and then went on to entertaiment and all of these still exist in the way i remember then i think. just cops and teachers have better tech and lawyers dont have to go to libraries for everything anymore. i can only barely remember what it was like before google times. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2020 0:58:56 GMT
I've been a restaurant cook
now retired for most of my life. I've seen robots take over cooking tasks but I think it's far from the norm.
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Post by Nora on Oct 1, 2020 1:59:25 GMT
I've been a restaurant cook now retired for most of my life. I've seen robots take over cooking tasks but I think it's far from the norm. what tasks? tell us more. do robots make my breakfast waffles or my omellete? need to know. coffee, sure; but they make food already too? |
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 1, 2020 2:16:09 GMT
When I was young... I worked at a "Taco Bell Express" in the food court of a local grocery store. Taco Bell is no longer operating there... I also worked various jobs at a different local Grocery Store chain. They went out of business a few years ago...
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 1, 2020 2:26:13 GMT
I was a typist for a small town newspaper my senior year of high school through college summers.
Are there still typists?
Then an elementary school teacher.
That exists though now it is on line.
Now I am a caregiver for my daughter with severe cerebral palsy. That job exists
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Post by Xcalatë on Oct 1, 2020 7:30:30 GMT
just one: Videostore clerk.
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Post by azzajones on Oct 1, 2020 8:12:36 GMT
I was a paper boy in my youth, I'm under the impression those don't exist anymore
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Oct 1, 2020 14:27:17 GMT
For me - at least 5.
Was a newspaper delivery boy with several routes between 1985 and 1992. The one route still exists, but I'm not sure of the others. I'm thinking both of those newspapers are no longer in circulation.
Factory maintenance (sweeping floors, machine maintenance/cleaning) on Saturday mornings/afternoons between 1992 and 1994. I did work there for their shutdowns in 1993 and 1995. Factory moved its operations to Quebec a few years ago.
Part of customer service team for BK (Burger King). Worked full-time at a location on the highway during the summers of 1996 and 1997. Restaurant was demolished in 1998 to make way for bigger facility.
Customer service team for music retail and retail book stores. Stores were family owned. Started in music retail in 1992 (part time - because I was still going to school). Worked part time until 1998. Family bought the book retail store in 1998, which gave me the opportunity to work full time. I would manage the music retail store, while my mother would manage the book retail store. It wasn't a paying gig - essentially just paying for my room and board.
Started working full-time in 1999 after father saw an ad in the paper for a junior accounting position. Closed the retail book store shortly after. Just couldn't make a go of it. Mother went back to managing the music retail store. I would still work there on Saturday afternoons. Mother would work Monday to Friday. My brother and I would split the shift on Saturday. He took the morning shift (9:00am to 1:00pm), and I would work until closing at 5:00pm - mainly because I would be out Friday nights for either hockey or baseball. Closed the business in 2004. With the competition heating up in London, and digital downloading becoming more prevalent, we could no longer make a go of it.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Oct 1, 2020 18:43:07 GMT
None. Only technology has changed, which I love! Makes working so much easier. same for me. all my previous jobs still exist. and in pretty much the same shape and form. in chronilogical order I was a bagel shop clerk, then a cocktail waitress, then club manager, then teacher, then i worked for the cops then became a lawyer and then went on to entertaiment and all of these still exist in the way i remember then i think. just cops and teachers have better tech and lawyers dont have to go to libraries for everything anymore. i can only barely remember what it was like before google times. Back in the "olden" days in law, poor secretaries had to type perfect pleadings and wills - with carbons! - and woe be it if a mistake was made! So, technology helped that a lot. I remember Lawyer's Service, a same-day delivery service to bring pleadings and checks to the Court House administration building for filing - not it's done electronically! A lot of those same-day messenger services have gone by the way-side.
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