10 Jobs Disappearing Due to Technological Advances

[Elderberry]

Lifehack by Elena Prokopets

Could you have imagined as a kid that Google’s driverless cars and consumer space travel would actually exist when you grew up? And how many more incredible sci-fi inventions are on their way to the mass market? Yet to have enough room for the new, the old sometimes has to go. As our society becomes more and more tech-driven, expect these 10 jobs to disappear in the next couple of years.

1. Newspaper reporter

The future of traditional printed media becomes more and more uncertain with over a million blog posts published daily and a long line of freelance writers competing to pitch the juiciest story to top online publishers. As the advertising revenues shrink, having a permanent staff of reporters with an average salary of $37,090 per year makes deeper holes in the tiny budgets of traditional news outlets.

More: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/10-jobs-disappearing-due-technological-advances.html

[truth_seeker]

Business machine repairs

Sharpen saws

Surveyor

Horseback moounted pipeline inspection

[Joe Wooten]

#2 is absolute BS. The digital age HAS NOT reduced the paper load, and I do not think it ever will.

[thackney]

#2 is absolute BS. The digital age HAS NOT reduced the paper load, and I do not think it ever will.

You are so correct.

Paper consumption in the United States for the last 20 years has increased from 92 million tons to 208 million, a growth of 126%.

https://www.recordnations.com/2016/02/how-much-paper-is-used-in-one-day/

I wonder how much cardboard box use has climbed with all the online shopping and shipping.

The Great American Cardboard Comeback
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/business/cardboard.html

[sneakypete]

I can see farmers (mostly) disappearing. Their children grow up privileged these days,and don't want to farm because they consider it a low-class job despite the wealth it created for them.

A local farmer decided to sell off his farm land this year because his "boy" (in his 30's) wanted a white collar job. Sold off all his equipment already,and has the farm broken up into different sized plots depending on location. The truth is that farm equipment is so expensive these days that if you sell off your equipment you might as well sell off your land because it would be tough to justify spending the replacement cost.

Don't feel too sorry for him,though. He inherited it all from his father,and one of the plots he is selling is 100 acres right on a 4 lane highway on one side,and a large body of water on the other. The side facing the highway is zoned "multi-use",and the other is waterfront property.  Not much danger of him or his "boy" going hungry.

BTW,his "boy" is a total asshat. To the point where even the father admits it now. Only child mama's boy. Nobody has ever accused the father of being lazy,though. If he wasn't farming,he was working at some other trade.

[Sanguine]

#2 is absolute BS. The digital age HAS NOT reduced the paper load, and I do not think it ever will.

Yes, the 9% decrease in employment may be explained by increasing automation rather than lack of demand for the product.

[sneakypete]

Yes, the 9% decrease in employment may be explained by increasing automation rather than lack of demand for the product.

@Sanguine

Not to mention the 37 grand per year annual salary. WTH wants to spend 4 years in college and then earn 37 grand a year on average?

[Slide Rule]

I can see farmers (mostly) disappearing. Their children grow up privileged these days,and don't want to farm because they consider it a low-class job despite the wealth it created for them.

A local farmer decided to sell off his farm land this year because his "boy" (in his 30's) wanted a white collar job. Sold off all his equipment already,and has the farm broken up into different sized plots depending on location. The truth is that farm equipment is so expensive these days that if you sell off your equipment you might as well sell off your land because it would be tough to justify spending the replacement cost.

Don't feel too sorry for him,though. He inherited it all from his father,and one of the plots he is selling is 100 acres right on a 4 lane highway on one side,and a large body of water on the other. The side facing the highway is zoned "multi-use",and the other is waterfront property.  Not much danger of him or his "boy" going hungry.

BTW,his "boy" is a total asshat. To the point where even the father admits it now. Only child mama's boy. Nobody has ever accused the father of being lazy,though. If he wasn't farming,he was working at some other trade.

I spoke to a relative at the Riggs Family reunion. Think it was the 103rd a few years back.
The 109th Rigg Reunion will be held on Labor Day at the Miller City Sportsman Club
In Miller City Ohio.

I spoke with a relative who had been in farming and cattle. Cattle being a shovel business.
Shovel in feed and shovel out shit.


They decided to leave the farm to one member of the family. The others went to college
That way the farm is not segmented into smaller and smaller farms. This is a relatively
consistent practice. Keep the farm in the family with one child and educate the rest in other
areas of interest.

:)

[rustynail]

 Muezzin.

[Joe Wooten]

I spoke to a relative at the Riggs Family reunion. Think it was the 103rd a few years back.
The 109th Rigg Reunion will be held on Labor Day at the Miller City Sportsman Club
In Miller City Ohio.

I spoke with a relative who had been in farming and cattle. Cattle being a shovel business.
Shovel in feed and shovel out shit.


They decided to leave the farm to one member of the family. The others went to college
That way the farm is not segmented into smaller and smaller farms. This is a relatively
consistent practice. Keep the farm in the family with one child and educate the rest in other
areas of interest.

:)

Back in the late 70's and early 80's most of the farmers in the West Texas area where I grew up formed family farm corporations. The corporation bought and held all the machinery and land. The members get together during the winter and decide what they are going to grow the next year, and who is going to be responsible for what acreage. These plans are used to make up a budget and any loans needed to get seed, fuel, fertilizer, etc are done in a package through the family farmcorp.

[Fishrrman]

The ten:

Newspaper reporter
Lumberjack
Flight attendant
Mail carrier
Librarian
Fast food cook
Tax examiner and collector
Taxi dispatcher
Farmer
Travel agent

Seem to be plenty of mail carriers still around.

[Joe Wooten]

The ten:

Newspaper reporter
Lumberjack
Flight attendant
Mail carrier
Librarian
Fast food cook
Tax examiner and collector
Taxi dispatcher
Farmer
Travel agent

Seem to be plenty of mail carriers still around.

Yep! The writer did not do a lot of careful thinking on the article. Mail carriers are part of a government bureaucracy. Has anyone ever heard about a government job being eliminated? Too many dues paying union bureaucrats......

[Sighlass]

Has anyone ever heard about a government job being eliminated?

Yeah, Border Patrol/Ice ... by a certain socialist party.

[PeteS in CA]

I don't know about disappearing, but fast food cook certainly is a job endangered by the $15/hour movement.

[sneakypete]

Back in the late 70's and early 80's most of the farmers in the West Texas area where I grew up formed family farm corporations. The corporation bought and held all the machinery and land. The members get together during the winter and decide what they are going to grow the next year, and who is going to be responsible for what acreage. These plans are used to make up a budget and any loans needed to get seed, fuel, fertilizer, etc are done in a package through the family farmcorp.

@Joe Wooten

Any farmer these days that has a farm that is more than a "hobby farm" is a fool if he doesn't incorporate.  It just solves so many tax and inheritance problems.

[sneakypete]

I don't know about disappearing, but fast food cook certainly is a job endangered by the $15/hour movement.

@PeteS in CA

So is dishwasher. Get used to the idea of eating off paper plates and using plastic knives and forks when eating out in the future.

[Joe Wooten]

@Joe Wooten

Any farmer these days that has a farm that is more than a "hobby farm" is a fool if he doesn't incorporate.  It just solves so many tax and inheritance problems.

There are a lot of those here in Illinois, where one of the sons got the old family farm, but cannot make a living on 300-400 acres. Either the husband or wife (or both) have a full or part time job outside the farm and work their asses off keeping it solvent.

[sneakypete]

There are a lot of those here in Illinois, where one of the sons got the old family farm, but cannot make a living on 300-400 acres. Either the husband or wife (or both) have a full or part time job outside the farm and work their asses off keeping it solvent.

@Joe Wooten

I dunno about Illinois,but I know the farmers around here make almost as much money from not farming (acreage in the soil bank) as they do farming. One local farmer I talk to almost every day got embarrassed when he ran for county commissioner a couple of years ago,and it was revealed he had pulled in almost 2 million from land in the Soil Bank the previous year. He also has a winery and several other businesses.

[Joe Wooten]

@Joe Wooten

I dunno about Illinois,but I know the farmers around here make almost as much money from not farming (acreage in the soil bank) as they do farming. One local farmer I talk to almost every day got embarrassed when he ran for county commissioner a couple of years ago,and it was revealed he had pulled in almost 2 million from land in the Soil Bank the previous year. He also has a winery and several other businesses.

Some of the lazy marginal farmers do "insurance farming". They will lay in a crop with the cheapest seed while doing as little work as possible to maintain it, hoping for a weather event that wipes them out and they get an insurance check for the lost crop.

[verga]

One he missed is "Cashier" McDonalds is moving to ordering kiosks. The walmart near me and Kroger's have installed quite a few "Scan and go" self checkouts. I used to find them annoying, but now they are faster than waiting in line, especially if I just have 1 or 2 items.

[PeteS in CA]

I can see farmers (mostly) disappearing. Their children grow up privileged these days,and don't want to farm because they consider it a low-class job despite the wealth it created for them.
...

You know every one of the millions of sons and daughters - myself being one - of farmers who chose other career fields? That statement would be laughably absurd were it not so outrageous. But it is absurd.