Straight clickbait. My first thought before I clicked through was “I better not see knocker-upper in there…”. It was job number 1. No one thought these jobs were irreplaceable, many of them are just tasks in a larger process or the function still exists in a different context.

21. Article Writer

Once upon a time, humans liked to read articles written by other humans. Since these human writers were capable of doing more than just predicting the next token, they were able to maintain a sense of coherency and continuity through their articles and could write lists that referenced other items, especially when they were closely related, instead of each item just following an intro, brief description, conclusion format that gets quite repetitive. But then text predictors got good enough to predict coherent sentences that are often even accurate and can follow a given theme or topic and websites thought no one would care since it was mostly marketing and propaganda by then anyways and dropped the human writers into active volcanoes.

I still had a milkman in the UK. The entire city of Lancaster has milkmen, they divvied up the place amongst them. If you are lucky you are in the area run by two farmers who deliver right from the farm.

11. Elevator Operator

My great-grandfather was an elevator operator in NYC in the early 1900s.

Projectionist is a forgotten job? That’s not only in my lifetime, my son was a projectionist. He ended up being the one to go to the various theaters training others to use digital projectors.

I’m pretty sure most people were like “yeah that’s a bullshit job” except milkman, lots of perks to being a milkman.

But, Resurrectionist even the people who had that job didn’t think they wete “irreplaceable”.

That’s a door to door bowling pin salesman. They ended in 2018.

“Lector” sounds extremely annoying. Milkmen need to make a comeback.