The more technological progress advances and mentalities change, the more new types of work are discovered and others fall into disuse and this is precisely what has happened and continues to happen with the passing of the centuries. Once in fact There were some types of jobs details which nowadays no one would dream of ever being able to carry out again, nor would it make sense to carry them out. In fact, today we have many gadgets and artificial intelligence which allow us to simplify some daily tasks that we don’t even pay too much attention to, which once had to be performed by human beings.
Special jobs that (fortunately) no longer exist today
Today when necessary getting out of bed you just need to set an alarm on your cell phone and just decide what the best ringtone is to avoid waking up too startled in the morning, but once upon a time obviously this possibility didn’t exist and consequently there were people who carried out the work of human alarm clock. Particularly in England and Ireland during the period of Industrial Revolution, this job had become widespread which consisted of going under the houses of people who needed to get up early and knocking on their doors or windows with very long sticks. The salary was a few cents a week.
Let’s consider another circumstance, for example it is summer you are resting and you want a cool drink: it will be enough open the freezer so you can take some ice cubes and throw them directly into the glass of water. Once upon a time, however, in order to have ice at home and to preserve food it was necessary to go and collect the ice outside and therefore there were ice cutters who took large blocks and then resold them. This was an extremely tiring task.
Another of the particular jobs that no longer exists today is that of reader in factories: whoever carried out this role had the task of reading books, newspapers or newspapers aloud to the workers working in the factories, in order to make the work less burdensome.
As far as leisure is concerned, it appeared for the first time in 1946, again in the category of particular jobs, the first automatic pin collector and before it was conceived, the profession of bowling pin collectors existed. In practice, there were generally some kids who stood at the bottom of the track and waited for the players to make their shot before putting all the pins back in their places and giving them the balls back, and they were called the pin’s boy.
Finally, the last of the particular and extremely tiring jobs was that of log hauler on the river, existed until trucks were invented to perform this task. There were expert guides who made the workers move all the loads of wood along the rivers to the sawmills, and this was a job particularly popular in the United States.
And these are just some of the particular jobs that existed in the past. If you were born in the past, which of these jobs would you never want to have?
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