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I often question the quality of articles on businessinsider.com, i.e. "this is news" vs "this is what i want you to think is news". Picking from the top of BI
by okigan 11y ago
I often question the quality of articles on businessinsider.com, i.e. "this is news" vs "this is what i want you to think is news".
Picking from the top of BI list, do these jobs even exist today?:
3. Switchboard operators, including answering service
1. Telephone operators
- 0xffff2 11y agoIt says right in the article how many of them exist today. ~12k is a vanishingly small number though.
- okigan 11y agoI thought these jobs were gone long time ago. There are 143,288K jobs in USA [1], so 100%*12K/143288K=0.00837%. The article portraits these jobs are in process of disappearing, looking at the numbers above, looks like BI is rather late with their "news". [1] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/employment/us/ http://www.deptofnumbers.com/employment/us/ (assuming data is correct)
- jqm 11y agoYes, this appeared to be a very lazily written article. It basically lists a bunch of variations of materials molders and postal workers.