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Interesting to think that most job fields that exist today existed then. One notable exception being computer programmers, probably the number one occupation of

• j1vms 10y ago
  And also probably a lot of job fields that existed then, that do not exist today considering the Industrial Age was on its way to hitting its peak in the following years.
• vkou 10y ago
  One can never be sure about the distant future, but my money would be on subsistence farmer.
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  There's been a tremendous change in the number of recognised employment cateogories over the past 150 years or so. The high-water point for distinct employments came around 1920 in the US, at least according to Census classifications. What you'll see is a shift from farm and ag, and transport categories to first manufacturing and especially railroad categories, then management and various professional classifications. By 1920 most major modern technologies existed, the major exceptions being television (and all its associated work), computers, nuclear energy, and some specific classifications of chemical work. Many of today's jobs might best be considered "complexity management": managing people or things, inspecting or certifying them, training and teaching, sales and marketing (especially), government. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3832wx/occupation_classifications_growth_and_change_over/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3832wx/occupat...