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It surprises me that all 10 jobs still exist, while there are several more recent occupations that no longer exist (albeit they were not that common): Milkmen,
by stevenjgarner 5y ago
It surprises me that all 10 jobs still exist, while there are several more recent occupations that no longer exist (albeit they were not that common):
Milkmen, Elevator operator, Switchboard Operator, Ice Cutter, Bowling Pin Setter, Film projectionist, Lamplighter, Leech collector, Alchemist, Bematist, Redsmith, Daguerreotypist, Town crier
- pram 5y agoFresh milk delivery seems like something that could definitely make a comeback though!
- kibwen 5y agoSee also The Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- anthony_r 5y ago<chuckles nervously as a software developer>
- bserge 5y agoThe industry is over half a century old by now, barring some absolute catastrophe, it's not going anywhere.
- post-it 5y agoBig solar flare would do it. Probably not worth worrying about though, not much we could do about it.
- AdamN 5y agoSolar flare would be awesome for coders. Some huge percentage of enterprise applications no longer have source code (they're just binaries with the code lost to the ages). All those binaries destroyed with the disks and insufficient disaster recovery would have to be rewritten!
- nsotelo 5y agoI doubt if many enterprises would survive this level of catastrophe.
- adamc 5y agoThanks for the link! Hadn't heard of that, although I've seen similar reasoning in other contexts. (Basically, the most reasonable estimate, absent other data, is that you are at the mean -- so, for example, one could reasonably guess that half the people to ever be born have been born at present.)
- stevesimmons 5y agoSo some people have 4 testicles? (assuming I'm average...)
- tomjakubowski 5y agoI'm probably missing the point here but yes, in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism A Rare Case of Polyorchidism: Four Testes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747319/
- ericd 5y agoWe had a milkman from a local farm until recently. Highly recommend it. Or if you’re in the Bay Area, Farmstead delivers glass bottle straus milk and picks up the empties.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoI would argue that a daguerrotypist is exactly analogous to a modern photographer; and print media is still developed as well.
- gumby 5y agoMilkmen, elevator operator, and switchboard operator were extremely common occupations in their heydays, all of which overlapped with my childhood. I only stopped milkman service here in Palo Alto a couple of years ago (though the dairy downtown shut down maybe 30 years ago). It turned out to be a direct milkman->teenager pipeline which was better than walking to the grocery store twice a day.
- irrational 5y agoWhy are you going twice a day? We drink 3 gallons of milk a week, but only go once a week.
- gumby 5y agoI didn’t really go twice a day, what I meant was that a teenager can drink a gallon of milk, eat five square meals, every day and still be thin as a rail. Given all the other food being bought we didn’t really have to have milk delivered, but milk the doorstep seemed to result in less junk food consumption. As an empty nester I drink less than half a gallon a week.
- selfhoster11 5y agoMilkmen definitely still exist in the UK, and likely other places.
- stevesimmons 5y agohttps://www.milkandmore.co.uk/ https://www.milkandmore.co.uk/ These guys do doorstop milk deliveries to much of the UK. In our area they comes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at around 5:30am. Milk in old fashioned glass bottles, Welsh cakes, yoghurt... Yummy!
- tomjen3 5y agoAlchemist became Chemist. Dageuerreotypist became photographer, which has only recently gone away. Town crier is now the guy flipping a sign for the new burger joint.
- ativzzz 5y agoPhotographers have absolutely not gone away, at least not in the wedding industry.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoTown crier [1] is now news anchor. [1]: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/2b/89/792b8997970b433b06b10721bd89900e--rome-tv-series-hbo-series.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/2b/89/792b8997970b433b06b10721b...
- beebeepka 5y agoBeen a while. Is that from Rome or Spartacus?
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThat's from Rome.
- seanhunter 5y agoMilkmen 100% exist in the UK. Even though I don't drink actual milk they have a massive range of products they will deliver, so I get fruit juice, various foods and oat milk delivered by my milkman.
- phonebanshee 5y agoMilkmen 100% exist in the US also. Several houses close by have delivery coolers for https://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/ https://www.smithbrothersfarms.com/ and their trucks appear regularly.
- dionidium 5y agoThe milkman is alive and well here in Rhode Island. Every other house has one of these on their front porch: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-55YYt59jQqk/TxnrEKJT4BI/AAAAAAAAA18/sSggezsPD5M/s320/photo-18.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-55YYt59jQqk/TxnrEKJT4BI/AAAAAAAAA...
- CoastalCoder 5y ago+1000 for Monroe Dairy. Nostalgia alone would almost make me a customer. But now I'm so used to milk from their glass bottles that I really notice (and dislike) the taste of milk from plastic.
- bagacrap 5y agomost of those didn't exist in medieval times either. Is it surprising that most common are also most timeless?
- zuminator 5y agoA building I worked in recently finally got rid of its elevator operators (along with a set of frighteningly rickety elevators) about 4 years ago. They must still exist in some places, maybe a few grand old hotels and social clubs.
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- midasuni 5y agoTown crier job advert in the U.K. from 6 years ago https://www.crediton.gov.uk/Portals/0/Downloads/job-vacancies/Town%20Crier%20Application%20Pack.pdf https://www.crediton.gov.uk/Portals/0/Downloads/job-vacancie... Projectionist https://careers.atg.co.uk/opportunities/job-search/job-detail.html?jobid=139934 https://careers.atg.co.uk/opportunities/job-search/job-detai... Milkman quite common round here https://shonesmilkandnews.co.uk https://shonesmilkandnews.co.uk Switchboard operator https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/direct_apply/?vac_ref=916883814 https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/direct_apply/?vac_ref=916883814 Fairly sure elevator operators in Blackpool tower exist and ride in the car with you. Less sure about Eiffel Tower, I do remember one in the car on the Empire State Building. In india of course you can barely get in the elevator because of the operator and his stool.
- petamask 5y agoFrom your link I ended up in the nationwide Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers http://www.ahgtc.org.uk/ http://www.ahgtc.org.uk/
- AdamN 5y agoI have a milkman in Seattle in 2021 - works great!
- davidjytang 5y agoElevator ladies still exists here in Taiwan and Japan.