OBSOLETEJOBS
In the past, there were lots of jobs that we don't have anymore. Many of these fobs have been takenover by machines, but some have just disappeared altogether. Let me tell you about some of them.
⒈Telegraph Operators
Long ago, people used telegraphs to send messages over long distances. It was like sending anold-fashioned text message, but you needed a telegraph operator to send it using a special machine. But now, we don't have telegraph operators anymore!
⒉Lift Operators.
These days, when we want to go up or down in elevator, we just press a button. But a long timeago, before 1950, there were people called lift operators. They would ride in the elevator with youand operate it. Nowadays, we don't see lift operators very often, but some still work in specialplaces like the Eiffel Tower in Pairs.
⒊Lamplighters
Back at the start of the 20th century，many cities used gas street lamps, not electric ones. Lamplighters had the job of going around in the evening and lighting these lamps with a bigcandle on a long stick. They would light about a hundred lamps in an hour. But today, we haveelectric streetlights, so lamplighters are gone.
⒋Typesetters.
Before we had computers, people used to make books and newspapers by hand. They had toarrange metal letters in wooden frames to create the pages. It was a bit like a big puzzle!Nowadays, computers help us do this work efficiently, so typesetters are not needed anymore.
⒌Switchboard Operators.
Believe it or not, in the past, when you wanted to make a phone call, you had to talk to an operator. You had to tell them the number you wanted to call, and they would connect your call for you. This job was mostly done by women at the beginning of the 20th century. But now, we can makephone calls without operators.
Will more jobs disappear in the future?It's very likely. The world is changing so quickly that ▲ . That's just how the world works!
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