Obsolete Jobs

“This is a swell day,” smiled retiring mail carrier Ernie Turner, as he worked his last Monday, Mar. 1, 2010.

The tech-savvy, newest generation of workers grew up hearing that the jobs they would hold as adults hadn’t even been invented yet. No one mentioned that the jobs they had come to think of as permanent might become a thing of the past.

This year has been a rough one for many industries. In fact, many fields were plagued with layoffs and budget cuts severe enough to threaten the continued existence of specific jobs within them. In time, we may look back and say that 2011 was the year that the following jobs began to die. Story here.

Among those listed: mail carrier, real estate agent, stock broker…. Are you worried that your job might become extinct?