Odd Jobs That No Longer Exist!

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1. Thanks! Awesome

2. The Groom of the Stool used to clean the monarch’s anus with a wash towel, a bowl, and a dry towel. That profession was actually considered prestigious because quite often the Groom of the Stool was privy of the king’s/queen’s decisions of the state.

3. Chimney sweepers.

4. @4:30
   I was 16 when my pops came home and told me he lost his job to one of those new fancy robot icemen, or Refigerator Perry’s as we used to call them when they first descended down on us. They took our whole darn town by 1929. We have stayed hidden in the Appalachians until the day we have the numbers to take back our jobs and our traditional way of life.

   I have been amongst you enslaved people for sometime. I’ve seen how you don’t even see all the automatons taking all your jobs. As it started with the fridge and evolved through your civilization from every palm pilot taking personal assistants livelihoods away, to every drone deploying packages or bombs it has permeated through every facet of your existence to listen to you as you wonder when AI will arrive.
   I know it arrived back in 1929 when it took the last of the icemen, my father, John Connor. But the war rages on until T2: Judgement Day.

5. Graveyard shift to third shift

6. Bell hop

7. Book binder stenographer pollenator

8. Shoe shiner

9. Schoe maker

10. Cooper smith porter street cleaner

11. OLD ODD JOBS :

    MILK MAN – DELIVERED FRESH MILK TO HOMES
    ELEVATOR OPERATER ( BEFORE PUSHBUTTON ELEVATORS )
    "HACKER" – WOOD CHOPPERS
    TELETYPE SETTER
    "GANDY DANCER" – RAILROAD WORKER
    CHIMNEY SWEEPERS
    FEMALE COMPUTERS (NO CALCULATORS ! DONE MANUALLY )
    MANUAL BOWLING ALLEY PINSETTERS
    SWITHBOARD OPERATORS
    MANUAL TYPISTS
    "CATCHPOLE" – DEBT COLLECTOR
    CLOCK WINDER – WOUND UP LARGE CLOCKS
    ICEMAN – BROUGHT BLOCKS OF ICE TO HOME "ICE BOXES"
    "FULLER" – MANUAL CLOTHES WASHER
    "HOBBLER" – TUGBOAT OPERATOR
    "KNOCKER UPPER" – SHOT PEAS AT WINDOWS TO WAKE PEOPLE UP FOR WORK ( BEFORE MANUAL ALRM CLOCKS )
    LAMPLIGHTER – MANUALLY LIGHT OUTDOOR STREETLAMPS ( BEFORE ELECTRICITY )
    LECTER – READ NEWS OR LITERATURE TO MASSES
    LOG DRIVER – SENT LOGS DOWN TO RIVERS
    USING LEECHES TO SUCK TOXIC BLOOD
    MUDLARK – SCAVENGER
    NECESSARY WOMEN – EMPTY HUMAN WASTE POTS ( BEFORE MODERN PLUMBING )
    PHRENOLOGIST – MASTER OF THE MIND BY MEASURING HEAD SIZE AND SHAPE
    POWDER MONKEY – STUFFED GUNPOWDER INTO CANNONS
    RESSURECTIONIST – DIG UP DEAD BODIES FOR MEDICAL PURPOSE
    RAILROAD SIGNALMAN ( COMPUTERS REPLACED JOB )
    TOWN CRIER – YELLED OUT THE TOWN NEWS
    BADGER – MIDDLEMAN TO FARMER
    GONG FARMER – DUG OUT HUMAN WASTE FROM PRIVIES AND CESSPITS ( 15TH & 16TH CENTURY )
    BLACKSMITH ( NOW KNOWN AS METAL FORGERS OR METALSMITH )
    RHETT SMITH – SHAPED COPPER ( NOW KNOWN AS METALSMITH )

12. So….many….dad….jokes…..

13. Thanks 😊

14. PLIMP NIBBLERS ARE NO LONGER NEEDED TODAY EITHER!!!!!!!

15. Receptionists have been replaced by those annoying automated systems!

16. LOL. Anime switch operator @ 3:36

17. In their youth, my mom worked as a switchboard operator, and my dad was a bowling pin setter.

18. We loved Maury, our Millman. He would always bring me & my sister a treat, especially around Christmas with a snowball ice cream. Snowballs were vanilla ice cream ball with coconut on the ouside. Those were the days.

19. Erin Walton was a telephone switchboard operator.

20. In our neigborhood during WW II it was the ice man.

21. Gas station attendants

22. I knew a girl from high school who was a fluffer for several years. She'd make between 500-2500 a day, depending on how many productions needed a fluffer.

23. Anybody noticed 3:35?!

24. Has anyone mentioned Draymen ? Men with horse wagons (later pickup trucks) who would collect packages at railway stations in small towns and deliver them to businesses and individuals in the town. Even the railway stations in small towns are a thing of the past.

25. Diaper services before disposable diapers.

26. My father was a pin-setter when he was a kid.

27. 2:20 If you look carefully, you'll see this is a modern photo made to look old. 😄

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