Check your Google Drive account and see what occupation (yes, it was once an occupation) I shared with you.
Then do the following things:
1. Find out what that job actually was. Write a short description of it.
2. Then explain briefly why it become obsolete.
3. Go to this link and this link. See what are the fastest growing jobs in the connected world. Write a short response about how you see yourself and your future degree fitting into this world.
Please leave all of your responses in the comments section of this blog.
1. Urine specialists. They collected - gasp - urine. Believe it or not urine was used a century ago in a variety of ways, to tan leather and produce textiles to name a few. Someone had to collect it. These poor chaps had that job.
ReplyDelete2. It was obsolete when advancements in technology led to easier ways to collect urine and then, later, new chemicals to replace actual urine.
1. A town crier, or bellman, is an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements as required by the court). They would also make public announcements in the streets. Criers often dress elaborately, by a tradition dating to the 18th century, in a red and gold robe, white breeches, black boots and a tricorne hat.
ReplyDelete2. When printed word came out, like letters, the town crier was not needed anymore. So they became sort of extinct.
1. A pinsetter, or also known as a pin spotter or pin boy, was a person who would manually reset bowling pins, clear fallen ones, and return bowling balls to players. Most were teenage boys, thus making the names pin boy. This job lasted until around 1936.
ReplyDelete2. This job became instinct when Gottfried Schmidt invented the mechanical pinsetter. Machines now set up pins, clear pins, push pins, and sends the ball back to the player. Doing the exact jobs of a pinsetter.
1. Switchboard operators were the people who used to connect your calls to whoever it is that you were trying to call. You would tell them who you wanted to call, and they would hook up your phone circuit to the other persons phone circuit.
ReplyDelete2.This job is extinct because now you can just punch in the number on your phone and it will call the person you want it to, you don’t need to go through a switchboard operator.
1. A pinsetter was the person responsible for setting up the pins in a bowling ally.They were also responsible for clearing pins off the lanes and returning the ball back to the bowler. It was usually teenage boys who did this, and they got paid very little.
ReplyDelete2. This job became obsolete because someone invented a machine to collect the pins and set them up again. Someone also came up with a way to get the ball back to the bowler without someone having to go get it.
My Response is shared to you on google drive.
ReplyDeleteElevator Operator
ReplyDelete1.Elevator operators would stand in a manual elevator and operate it with a lever. The operator had to operate the lever and make sure the elevator stops perfectly on each floor.
2.It went extinct when they stopped making manual elevators. Now people just press a button. There is no need for a person to stand there and do it for them.
Elevator Operator
ReplyDelete1. They were attendants who used a lever to move an elevator up and down and stop it at each level.
2. It went mostly extinct because now there are elevators where you just press a button and it does it by it's self.
1. Lamplighters were people that light street lamps at night every night with a tall pole with a wick on the end. They also had to turn them off with a hook on the same pole. They also served partly as watchmen for the town.
ReplyDelete2. They became extinguished as soon as the street lights could be operated automatically.
Iceman- Before we had refrigeration, We had people who delivered ice blocks to homes that had been cut out of frozen bodies of water. The delivery men were Icemen. Each day you dropped off blocks of ice at various places. Pretty boring job. It has obviously become extinct because everyone has a refrigerator now. It would be ridiculous to still have people deliver ice.
ReplyDeleteI planning on getting a degree in engineering, so I think that I will fit pretty well into the job market. Engineering is supposed to be a growing field.
that it is. I talked to Derek Kayser, an engineering student at NDSU, and he said there are fields opening up all the time.
Delete-A Milkman is a person who worked for the local dairy before modern refrigerators were invented. His job was to go to your house and drop off a bottle of milk in the morning by leaving it on your doorstep and taking away the previous days empty bottle to be reused the next morning.
ReplyDelete-This job became extinct because advances in refrigeration technology were made, and it became posable to store milk for more than a day in your own home and stores were able to store it for consumer distribution. So it was much easier for the people to go and get milk when they needed it and not wait for every next morning. Although there are still Milkmen in some parts of the United Kingdom only servicing about 10,000 families.
A copy boy is someone who helps work on a newspaper. They will usually make copies or run errands. When a person was finished, the copy boys would collect the documents and deliver to the next person in the editorial process. Copy boys became obsolete because nowadays sending an email or instant message is now faster.
ReplyDeleteMy future career as a teacher won't become obsolete because you are always going to need someone to teach you. Whether you take online classes or classes in a school. Some people are always going to be home schooled so in that sense you wouldn't need a teacher.
1. A cobbler was a person who made and repaired shoes. They typically made shoes from leather, rubber, plastic, or any other durable materials they could find.
ReplyDelete2. This job is not totally extinct, but they are not very popular anymore. This is because shoes are now made in mass, not one pair at a time. Also, when we ruin our shoes, we just get new ones because they are so readily available.
Chimney Sweep
ReplyDelete1. A chimney sweep is a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys. You would call them in every now and then to clean your chimney.
2. This went extinct because most people don't even have chimneys anymore because of different ways to heat your home, so they obviously don't need chimney sweeps.
-Copy Boy
ReplyDeleteA copy boy would typically work at a newspaper. The job of that copy boy was to carry the slips of butcher paper that reporters wrote to other rooms to be split into carbon copies for distribution.
The job is extinct because the reporters can now write their stories on a laptop or computer and instantly print or distribute hundreds of copies just by a click of a button. They do not need a person to run one slip of paper all over the place and produce copies by hand.
Street Sweepers
ReplyDelete1. Street sweepers are people who cleaned up streets with brooms. They pick up loiter and other debris in the streets.
2. It went extinct because they were replaced by machines that were attached to the backs of trucks and other vehicles that pick up debris. Now instead of sweeping it up, they just vacuum it up on the back of the truck.
I can see my future career as an accountant becoming extinct to an extent. Like now, there are programs like Turbo Tax that let you do your taxes yourself for little to nothing. But I know most people would rather go to a professional to make sure it is correct and done right. They will be needed in institutions because you can't just complain to a computer and expect it to correct it's mistakes or respond to you. Yes, the job could be done with a computer, but I do believe that a human being is important to the point of consulting them and solving problems. So I do think that accountants will be needed in the future, even though computers can do much of the work.
ReplyDeleteBeing an engineer will never become obsolete because there will always be a high demand for people with problem solving skills. Many engineering jobs are in high demand, which will make it easy for me to find work when I finish school.
ReplyDeleteMy guess the hardest part of your job will be choosing which field in which to specialize. But that's a great problem to have.
DeleteThe degree I'm aiming for right now is chemical engineering. It will fit in the changing market perfectly. Chem Engineers are in huge demand and are scarce. They can solve tough problems which is very important. They help in many ways like finding efficient ways to get things done and being environmentally friendly doing it too. That's a big concern of the world, so it's a great job to have. It won't go obsolete in my lifetime.
ReplyDeletelathmakers oversee wood sawing. Mills became automated
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of either becoming a nurse or a teacher, and I think neither of these will be going obsolete. Teachers have been around forever and they don't seem to be going anywhere, because there's always going to be kids. Nurses will always be needed as long as there's healthcare. Disease and sickness aren't going away, so neither are nurses and many healthcare professions.
ReplyDeleteTypists in type pools are basically assembly lines of typewriters hired to create things like catalogs and magazines. They were assessed on their ability to sit there for hours and type as fast as they could. They weren't paid on the quality of what they were writing; it was their speed.
ReplyDeleteThey became extinct because of new technology such as computers, printers, and copy machines. These new technological advances made mass production of catalogs, magazines, and stuff of the like much faster than typing pools.
A lot of the top jobs are in the medical and science field. I plan on majoring in biology and going to medical school. The background I will get with my major and the knowledge I will get from medical school will put me in a fast growing job market. I will be set as long as Obamacare doesn't totally screw things up.There will always be room for more medical providers due to the continuous flow of patients and the intense Dip medical school presents.
ReplyDeleteI am planning on becoming either an Architect or a Creative Director for an advertising agency. After looking at the list, I realized that I will look into a Portfolio manager, and a Actuary.
ReplyDeleteCool. I think anything with 'creative' in the title will be hard to make obsolete.
DeleteI'm planning on becoming a nurse and then going back to become a nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist. I believe the outlook for these jobs is great because nurses will always be needed to care for people. Also, in one of the articles, it said that the best people in the health care field are a combination of a nurse, leader, educator, and researcher. Nurses will also be in high demand because of the baby boomers.
ReplyDeleteThe fastest Growing Jobs: I would just use new technologies to be an Automotive Design Engineer. Because I feel that there will always be a need for this occupation.
ReplyDeleteLooking through the list of "the best jobs" made me a little depressed inside. They all look so boring and unoriginal. How about some fun occupations climb up that list so I can restore some hope to humanity. I want to be a personal trainer and I don't see those becoming obsolete anytime soon. I mean there are new ways of exercising being invented everyday. It would be hard to automate that anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to go into chemistry and as one of the top careers right now is biomedical engineering, maybe finding a different material for prosthetic limbs that is more durable, or lighter, or closer to the real thing. Another career that was hot right now is petroleum geology. Finding a chemical or compound that will allow oil and natural gas companies to get to the reservoirs quicker, more efficiently, or with less pollution, etc., would be a way to fit chemistry and petroleum geology together. Chemistry can be tied to just about anything, since everything is made up of elements, compounds, alloys, etc.
ReplyDeleteA milkman was someone who would come by every week and deliver milk They would come by a families house and deliver a case of milk bottles, and each week, would deliver more milk and take back the empty case. It isn't much of an occupation anymore, though. With the supermarket age and having gallons or half gallons of milk available to us in cheap plastic cartons, and refrigerators, there is no need to get fresh milk every week. It's much more convenient for us to go to the store and grab milk for a few dollars than it is for a milkman to drop off 6 bottles of milk a week.
ReplyDeleteThe long hour bit is pretty expected considering most creative jobs aren't completed on a 9-5 shift. If I love what I'm doing in the future this wouldn't be a burden at all. I have been thinking about nursing or art and design. I know nursing will be crazy hours and for the art and design piece, I haven't done that much research yet. However, I do like learning about the anatomy of our bodies and they work. By doing something like nursing, I could really enjoy myself, make a decent amount of money, and help people out. Plus, it wouldn't require all of the schooling needed to become a doctor.
ReplyDeleteMost of jobs have to do with the medical fields and science fields. Health sciences have caught my attention in the last year, but I am still undecided in the major I want to pursue. I think these jobs have lasted the best because they aren't easily replaceable by machines like a lot of other jobs. Linchpins are found in these fields because they are harder and the schooling is a lot longer.
ReplyDeleteA pinsetter was someone who manually cleared lanes, set up pins, and return balls to the players at the bowling alley. Working as a pinsetter was typically a part-time, low paying job. The job of a pinsetter has now become obsolete because of they have been automated. All most all bowling alleys now use a mechanical pinsetter, but still typically have someone who makes sure the automated system is working properly. Bowling alleys today also have an automated scoring system. This is why pinsetters went extinct.
ReplyDeleteA majority of the jobs featured on the links have to deal with the medical field. I'm still undecided on my major but I have been thinking about something in the medical field or business. Jobs in the medical field, and in business have withstood the test of time because they aren't easily replaced. You can't and don't really want a machine checking to see if you healthy, or a robot selling you a product or service. I think in both of these fields it is important to be a linchpin. Any job in the medical field does a good job of creating linchpins because it takes a lot of schooling and this weeds out people who aren't passionate or committed enough. The links about the fastest growing careers were interesting and even though some don't interest me I realized it is important to be a linchpin at whatever I decide to do
River Driver
ReplyDelete1. It was a lumberman who drove or conducted logs down rivers; which was the main way of transportation for the logging industry in Europe and North America back in the day.
2.This job became obsolete once the invention and discovery of railroads and big trucks came into play. Most river driving jobs ended in 1970's for the United States and Canada.
I am not sure about what my future career will be, but I do have a good idea that it will be involved somehow in the medical field. Just by looking at the links that you put up showing the top 10 fastest growing jobs, I know that I will be okay. Out of the ten listed, six of them were related to health in some way and were apart of the medical field. There are so many different jobs to look into for health and it is a constantly growing field because of all the new discoveries.
ReplyDeleteLector
ReplyDeleteIs a person who lectures. This mainly refers to someone who reads scripture. They are not obsolete because we still have priests, but their purpose has sort of changed. Instead of being needed to read because the audience is illiterate, they are more for interpretation and lessons.
Physical Therapist
I can't see this job becoming obsolete in the future. With the baby boomers and increasing population, the medical field in general is stable. People of all ages need physical therapists. The need is more prevalent in the ages like that of the baby boomers because many will need surgeries and rehab. The demand for physical therapists is high, and I don't ever see it going down in my lifetime.
I'm not sure what I'm going to major yet in college but I want to something with math and sports, so maybe a statistician. I can somewhat see this job coming obsolete because they can get computers to crunch the numbers, but I can also see it not be obsolete. Computers can crunch the numbers but people will have to plug in the numbers but if I plan on being a statistician for sports people are better at analyzing their play style. I can see it as something that will stay around.
ReplyDeleteI think I would fit in well with the petroleum geologist. I love the outdoors and think it would be a very interesting job. AS the population gets bigger there would be more need or petroleum. It would continue to grow hopefully.
ReplyDeleteSpecial Education/Sign Language
ReplyDeleteLooking at the list I was a little disappointed not seeing my future job, but I kind of knew that it wouldn't be on there just based on how our jobs are growing. But, this is something that is always going to be in need, and the demand is high right now.
Cobbler:
ReplyDelete1. A cobbler was someone who makes or repairs shoes.
2. Cobbler's still exist, but they aren't very common since shoes can be made in mass numbers now in the factories. Shoes also don't have to be fixed by a person either because a person could easily just go and buy a new pair.
Occupational Therapist or Nurse:
I don't think that I would have to worry about these jobs becoming obsolete in my future. They are on the fastest growing jobs and there will always be people that need assistance. These jobs also can't really be replaced by any technology, especially nurses. With nursing, I don't think I would have too much trouble finding a place to work either, places are always looking for nurses.
Iceman:
ReplyDeleteAn iceman is someone who went around cutting out blocks of ice to put in peoples freezers. It was a popular occupation until refrigeration became common place. It has become obsolete with common refrigeration. Once a refrigerator was in every home in America. The iceman became obsolete.
Computer Programmer/Designer:
I don't think that I have to worry about this job becoming obsolete. Technology and computers are an upcoming field. With a great demand for programmers and designers. This job isn't going away any time soon.
Right now I'm interested in doing something in science/research. I can't picture this becoming obsolete, because there is always something new to learn or a way to make something better. I think any job that involves research /innovation s safe, because people are always looking for ways to make things better, cure a disease, or other things like that. The clinical researcher was in the top 10, with a growth rate of about 30% so I think it'll stick around for awhile.
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