29 mercifully obsolete jobs

[Retro]

How many of these do you remember doing? Yes, some of them were rendered obsolete recently enough that some forum members could have done them, but probably didn't.

Remember pinsetters, lectors and switchboard operators? Robots may be stealing jobs left, right and centre nowadays, but plenty of professions have vanished over the years as society has changed and technology has progressed.

Click or scroll on for some once-common occupations from way back when that no longer exist.

29 jobs that are now extinct

With the AI revolution in full swing, there's plenty of anxiety around jobs becoming obsolete. It's an age-old story: professions that were once commonplace have now disappeared altogether. Here are 29 outdated occupations that have bitten the dust.

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[Tiffany]

I never knew those jobs even existed. How far we've come in our civilized world, but there are still "dirty jobs" that exist today.