13 Obsolete Jobs From the Past

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@thomasrogers8239 3 ай бұрын

8:50 "some babies probably smoked" So fun story, my dad was told by my grandma that he needed to quit chewing tobacco and swearing so that he could go to kindergarten

@waverlyking6045 3 ай бұрын

I’ll be so happy when social media influencer joins the list.

@mentalflosserin 3 ай бұрын

Just need everyone to know that I nailed the pure finder doo doo poem perfectly on the first take 😂

@reddblackjack 3 ай бұрын

And it was melodic. Just superb!

@bhasty1 3 ай бұрын

My fave presenter. Erin needs to put out 4 videos per week. I would love to hear her do a long form video. Maybe a short documentary series?

@mentalflosserin 3 ай бұрын

This is so kind-thank you! I actually hosted a whole podcast about Theodore Roosevelt if you’re interested-it’s called History Vs. There are … so many episodes 😂

@reddblackjack 3 ай бұрын

We gotta give her ideas for content. Weird things people from Rome did for instance. Like drinking wine from lead goblets to make it sweet and collect pee to whiten togas. Hey trying to help over here 😂

@DeathlyTired 3 ай бұрын

I used to process cheque payments which was made essentially obsolete by automated machine processing, and then almost completely eradicted by the drastic reduction of cheque usage in the tap and go era.

@joelb8653 2 ай бұрын

As an old guy pay phones didn't take quarters hence the phrase "it's yourr dime"

@joelb8653 2 ай бұрын

When I was growing up every matchbook had ads for keypunch operator training . A "job for life" which disappeared overnight.

@prettygirlpandora 3 ай бұрын

OMG EntrePOOneurs took me out.🤣 The poo puns were great, rather clever.

@ericreativecuts 3 ай бұрын

Now I have The Log Driver's Waltz stuck in my head

@ascott615 3 ай бұрын

I was really hoping she would cover ice farmers.

@goldenappel 3 ай бұрын

No idea if it's related to #12 but here in the north of Ireland an ice cream in a cone is traditionally referred to as a poke.

@lhpoetry 3 ай бұрын

Thinking of history, some more common and obscure jobs: Guano miner: mining guano off of guano islands was pretty awful, and mostly people who'd been tricked. Whaler and a whole lot more jobs on sailing ships. Wainwright. Cooper. Miller. Telephone operator. Privateer. Yeoman. Mourners. Telegraph operator. There were a number of jobs involving tube computers in the 70s-ish. Banner carriers in battle. Trumpeters/drummers in battle.

@myu2k2 3 ай бұрын

in the 80s/90s the local bowling ally still had cigarette vending machines... they've since remodeled the place to look less like a rundown 70s casino lounge and more like a retro arcade with surfer vibes.

@btetschner 3 ай бұрын

A+ video! LOVE IT! What unique jobs, such great finds!

@chairshoe81 3 ай бұрын

so doctor barber from flapjack has historical precedent

@clumzychaos 2 ай бұрын

The Hollywood crap joke earned a new sub! Actually made me laugh out loud. Bravo!

@jimbrentar 2 ай бұрын

how did milkman fail to make your list? I'm old enough to remember when milk and other dairy products were delivered to your home every day

@proudvirginian 3 ай бұрын

Pure finders still come to my house once a week and scoop the poop. They just dispose of it rather than selling it to tanneries.

@bhasty1 3 ай бұрын

😂

@Matthew-ix1mq 3 ай бұрын

Are you sure, I mean have you followed them? Never assume anything, they could be up to something!!

@robertneal4244 3 ай бұрын

The "s" in corpsman is silent, so it is pronounced kor-man.

@TetraSky 3 ай бұрын

the p and s are silent *. Corps is french to for "body". It is indeed pronounced "kor". Because of course it would be... God I hate my language sometimes.

@mentalflosserin 3 ай бұрын

Ugh we literally stopped to look it up! Not sure what we were listening to but clearly it was not right 🤦🏻‍♀️

@jonelfilipek7848 3 ай бұрын

That’s HEDLEY!

@Linusgump 3 ай бұрын

Just like in Marine Corps, the p and s are silent. The only time they aren’t is when the Marine dies and he becomes a Marine corpse.

@reddblackjack 3 ай бұрын

Yup. Corpse is truly American pronouncing every letter EXCEPT the E and meaning dead body. Comes from Latin corpus like Corpus Christi meaning body of Christ. French has a way of silencing it's mother tongue's sounds. Because corps is the same word as corpse but came through to English differently with different usage, so now we have two words, both originating from the Latin corpus. I watch Rob words on KZbin. He's talked about words like this. Two different words that come to English from one original word by different means. Fascinating shit! Hey, what's that called? When I use a good word like fascinating and a bad word like shit in the same euphemism? And it's universally understandable by most English speaking people.

@reddblackjack 3 ай бұрын

Hey GREAT VIDEO! Got one for you. In Ancient Rome they collected urine and used it to whiten togas. They boiled or did something to it. But it was a job. What I thought this was going to be was about how some last names are jobs we don't do anymore. Follow up video for you. Wrights made stuff like carts, buggies,boats and wheels. Boatwright and Cartwright are still names too, but wheelwright and woodwright and were jobs too. Carpenter, Smith, Cooper, and Shepherd. Goldsmith, Ferrier, and bunches of others have an interesting mix of being both names and jobs we have different ways of doing or different ways of referring to the job. Noone says they're a shepherd but many people raise sheep for instance. Machines make copper bands for barrels, so technically nobody is a cooper. Unless the guy feeding the machine and hitting the button counts. Most Blacksmiths can specialize now. Bladesmiths, ferriers, toolmakers, and on. There's meat on that for ya.

@CritterKeeper01 3 ай бұрын

You asked for jobs that *won't* become obsolete....how about veterinarian? I sincerely hope that humans will always have animals in their lives and will always want to keep them healthy and help them when they're hurt or sick!

@joan5150 3 ай бұрын

Nice bangs

@harpershecter1369 3 ай бұрын

The zingers are hilarious!!!

@godnoble 2 ай бұрын

My favorite obsolete job is knocker-upper. It was a human alarmclock service, but I just love the name.

@mnye833 2 ай бұрын

And go back farther, an pay phone was a dime

@MeredithHagan 3 ай бұрын

9:55 - It’s pronounced “corr-man,” no S sound! “Corps” in French looks like “corpse” in English but the PS is silent. 😁

@anyawillowfan 3 ай бұрын

I'm a little surprised you comment that going to the toilet is a 'private' moment, as this is a very modern standard. Afterall, everyone uses the toilet, and in the past the bucket was likely in the one room shared by a family so it definitely wasn't private. We have to be careful about putting our own ideologies on to the past (the Victorians notably did this and we are still trying to undo their false beliefs about the roles of men and women in prehistory).

@GailGurman 2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure when public telephones started charging a quarter, but when I was a kid (I'm 60), it was a dime, and as far as I know, it had been a dime for a long time. I know the price change was regional because I remember doing a crossword in the late 80s (I think) in which a clue for a 4-letter word was "price of a call, once" (or something like that) and I remember thinking that it was still a dime where I lived (I think that was Boston at that time). Also, I'm pretty sure that the expression, to "drop a dime" referred to the price of a call. All this to say that I think "typically a quarter" as the price of a call is wrong.

@michelefritchie6198 2 ай бұрын

Hokey-pokey is actually an English corruption of the ice cream seller's Italian cry of "Hoc et poci" (Here's a bit)" they called out to sell their wares.

@Jus10Ed 3 ай бұрын

Next on the list...all of them.

@y_fam_goeglyd 3 ай бұрын

I used to run the payphone department for one region in the UK. I'd send my team out at around 4:30 am, and then count each phone's total. Unfortunately, the in-house job got put out to tender. Fortunately, I was pregnant with my second and offered money to go away, so I took it!

@btetschner 3 ай бұрын

Drinking a Rockstar Energy drink...while watching this video!

@dehydratedwater9806 3 ай бұрын

@bhasty1 3 ай бұрын

Nice insert. Maybe they should hire you.

@matthewdrummond1340 3 ай бұрын

2:29 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@curtisblake261 3 ай бұрын

A common belief is that barbers never hurt you with their straight razors. Not so, I found out. I once got a huge bleeding slash on my neck. Ever since, I decline to let a barber use a straight razor on me. They seem insulted, but to me, the risk outweighs the benefits.

@duB420Grass 2 ай бұрын

The cigarette girls still come though occasionally. They just hand out coupons and stand next to the cigarette machine at the bar instead.

@infinihedron 3 ай бұрын

Nothing has disappointed me more than the lack of a callout for the Canadian classic, Yhe Log Driver's Waltz: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6HWi41oqJirrJo

@DemonRax47 3 ай бұрын

Who's poisoning people in Russia? Jeez lol

@AdityaMehendale 3 ай бұрын

2:46 Yaw're welcome.

@BenRollinsActor 3 ай бұрын

The "p" and the "s" in "corpsman" are BOTH silent.

@WrongParadox 3 ай бұрын

occupations that probably won't disappear ... con-artists, politicians, lawyers, cult leaders, nepotism

@zero11010 3 ай бұрын

How many current jobs will be obsolete in 10 years? 40 years? How many people driving cars for a living will there be? How many people answering phones will there be? How many people at service desks doing customer support will there be? I’m a software engineer. I’m definitely already seeing tech jobs being replaced with AI (Cisco just announced a thousands of layoffs primarily citing AI as the reason). Certain engineering jobs are going to be gone. For the last 20 years knowing HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript wa enough to make $150k. That’s going to mostly be replaced by AI in the next decade or two. How will this impact fast food jobs and a ton of other industries? How about customer support jobs where you need to know a product line and answer questions about it? How about data entry jobs? How about basic paralegal work? How about jobs where most of what you do is schedule appointments? Right now there are “prompt engineer” roles in tech where your job is to be good at asking AI to do a thing (these are real jobs right now and they pay well). As the AI gets better that job will certainly vanish.

@Dragantraces 3 ай бұрын

Pay phones accepted nickels, dimes and quarters, not just quarters. A local call used to cost a nickel, then a dime, and finally a quarter, but you could pay for that 25¢ call with a combination of coins. Of course, long distance calls would cost varying amounts, up to several dollars depending on where you were calling and how long the call ended up taking.

@zero11010 3 ай бұрын

@@Dragantraces just curious, what does that have to do with the topic of jobs becoming obsolete?