By the year 2030, the manufacturing industry will lose 1.2 million jobs, the mining and oil/gas extraction industry will lose another 104,000 jobs and utility companies will lose 59,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
So we've listed the 10 middle-class professions -- in order from smallest to largest in percentage rate of decline -- that may soon face the fate of the milk man, the telegraph operator, the stagecoach driver and the switchboard operator, joining them in obsolete-job heaven.
Machinists:
First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Production and Operating Workers:
Farmers and Ranchers:
Computer Operators:
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators and Tenders:
Desktop Publishers:
Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers:
Wellhead Pumpers:
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors and Processing Machine Operators:
Semiconductor Processors:
