50 jobs that no longer exist

50 jobs that no longer exist

Actually, the milkman certainly exists today, in my territory I work people have coolers on their front porch for milk and fresh foods delivery.

Scissor grinders aka knife sharpeners still have the same mobile carts today and are very popular in farmers markets everywhere.

We have deer cullers across the street from me. They are sharp shooters and they cull the heard to a manageable amount. They have them everywhere where they are deer but hunting isn't permitted.

There are still food tasters, many political figures including Putin utilize one.

Family Video stores are still all over. Just because Blockbuster closed doesn't mean the rest did.

Cigarette girls are still working in nightclub environments in Vegas.

I quit scrolling through....

Thanks, Donald!

Not a very good list....

Broomsquire....Hand made brooms are still made, so that ones wrong.

Baked potato seller.....Had one off a street seller last time I visited England.

Caddy butcher....Saw these in France last year.

Rat catcher....Now called "Pest Control"....See yellow pages.

Water carrier.... mostly women and children in third world countries!

I have weekly dairy delivery.

Some of my bosses still have a typist...I think they think they are too important to type themselves

So True !!!!

No, not a good list. Mainly aims at being funny, but fails to be that. What about proof readers? I miss them every day...

I used to be an editor/proofreader and I see things in articles online now that are the stuff of nightmares. Just the other day I got an email from my power company, an email that was sent to thousands of people, and there was a mistake in the very first sentence. Apparently very few people bother to check such things anymore. Definitely a lost art.

It used to be (I always thought so anyway) that those mistakes were a tip-off of an email scam, but no longer.

I like to watch the "teletext" news on my TV. No pictures. Just printed news.
It tends to cover important news items with much less "sensationalism" but the grammar and spelling can both be atrocious - and this is the BBC where the accuracy of such things used to be paramount

I'm really sorry to hear that this sort of thing is happening in England too, Mad.

Baaad, ain't it ????

I think it's happening everywhere. It's the digital format that allows journalists (or "writers") to publish directly online with a single mouse click without the time consuming (and expensive) interference of a typesetter, proof reader, and editor.

But it will eventually cause a serious deterioration of "the written word" - which to my mind is a great shame

Yes, that's the cost of the demand for faster and less expensive publishing. Here in Sweden, the deterioration is already a fact. Not even the school teachers know their own grammar anymore.

Well just how ridiculous is that ????

Especially when I think back to the days of my schooling ( a very long time ago, of course ) and the years and years of English Language lessons I undertook

This line is part of a want ad listed on Indeed today. Made me think of this thread. It is for a Pet Sitter.

"We take the safety of our fury friends extremely serious and pay to have all of our sitters and walkers go through a Pet CPR and First Aid Certification!"

Yep, oldbroad, I see mistakes like that every day now.

Sometimes those dogs do pack some fury!