The continued development of technology makes many fear, sometimes subconsciously, be replaced at work by machines more efficient than they. Professions such as telemarketer, driver, translator, ticket seller and cashier may disappear in coming decades ... In the same way they did in their day jobs, which are listed here, on the list of missing professions.
1- When there were no freezing systems the only way to get ice was pick him up the mountains or 'manufacture' in special pits or caves. Then this ice was transported to urban centers and sold.
2- The boy bowling was responsible for placing the pinfall. Children considered him a prestigious job because it was not dirty and not forced to be on the street. This occupation disappeared after mechanize the process of removal and placement of the pins.
3-There is hardly a word that describes this profession. We could say that this man is a man-radar. His job was to detect enemy aircraft, a sought occupation during World War II before the invention of radar as we know them.
4- The job hunter rats was very simple: kill rats. However, few know that this job involved a mortal danger because rats were carriers of the plague, a disease that cost 200 million lives Europe in the fourteenth century.
5- Before the invention of electricity cities were illuminated by the lamplighters, who roamed the streets lighting the lamps with the help of long sticks or stairs. At dawn the they extinguished in the same way.
6- At the dawn of telephony, companies used the work of operators of the telephone exchange to connect partners. They were usually operators, because at that time the female labor was cheaper.
7- The reciter was a very popular profession, and enjoyed high demand in factories where workers performed a monotonous manual labor. Reciter work was not as easy as it may seem, requiring a good physical condition to read newspapers or books for hours.
8- Sooty were very common throughout Europe. Although this office has a romantic halo, the truth is that being exposed to soot and high risks of falls from roofs made him a very dangerous job, even fatal, which was also very poorly paid.
9- Today hard pressed to find a real crier, but were formerly the only means I had a lot of people to get news. They dressed unusually, had a very powerful voice and wore bells to attract attention.
10- Now it would sound strange man work alarm clock, but not time in England this trade was very important. In the absence of mechanical alarm clocks and, much less, mobile phones, alarm clock man guaranteed that people are not late for work.
