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Dying Careers You Should Avoid
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Posted on 05/02/2013 9:53:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: EQAndyBuzz
COBOL programmer. A surprising amount of business is still conducted using COBOL and RPG-2 and -3.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:08:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: BenLurkin
Health insurance salesman .
Unless obamacare is repealed, and the chances of that are remote, this will be a dead profession.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:12:46 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Maceman
I used a more primitive device also made by IBM. I would type a line blind and when I had entered a set number of characters, the device would print out a line right and left justified. These would be pasted up on a copy board and then photographed. The resulting negative would be mounted on a flat specific to the press that was going to print the work, touched up for any imperfections and then used to burn a plate. It seems impossibly primitive now.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:12:46 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: RoosterRedux
I would also recommend taking the Myers-Briggs personality test to find out what careers you would like and be good at."Let me tell you about my mother."
To: Lx
There goes my buggy whip and gas lamp business. Move to Lancaster County PA. You'll do well!
Regards,
GtG
PS Location, location, location!
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:18:18 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: muir_redwoods
Yikes!! That sounds a lot less efficient than linotype, even.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:21:45 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: Tijeras_Slim
Bird catchers can always find work somewhere especially in China
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:25:22 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: BenLurkin
Hmm, well...33 years in the IT biz and I’m ready for another gig. My sister suggested “organ donor.” But I don’t know how to play the organ...
To: Red Badger
"I remember tons of ads in the paper for Key Punch Operators back in the early 70s"Did that, too. Somewhat similar, but TTY predated keypunch by decades. I was also the only operator in the District who could operate the IBM MagCard Selectric typewriter. (Noisy!)
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:26:55 AM PDT
by
redhead
(NO GROUND TO THE DEVIL! Use Weaponized Prayer)
To: BenLurkin
Any career in the private sector where you have to work hard and make a lot of money doing so because Uncle Sam will tax the s__t out of you and confiscate your wealth and you’ll end up with the same income and assets as some lazy bum who spent his whole life on public assistance and certainly less than the Lords and Ladies who work for the government and get benefits and a retirement package estimated to be worth several million dollars on average.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:27:40 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: JoeProBono
It doesn't pay to over specialeyes.
To: Maceman
Well, it was all done on paper and the paste up adhesive (wax really) allowed for updating for prices (remember the inflation of the ‘70’s?) and dates for the next printing.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:29:03 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Wage scale can be an issue
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:34:21 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: muir_redwoods
Well, I do remember using wax adhesive for paste-up. But typing in characters for each line, printing out line by line and then photographing it, (which is how I understand the process you described) sounds incredibly time-consuming.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:34:55 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:37:18 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Stand Your Ground)
To: Maceman
You describe the process accurately. At $2.50/ hr I didn’t mind spending the time.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:37:24 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: muir_redwoods
Cameraman, Stripper, Platemaker, Pressman. All good paying high skilled trade jobs that are damn near obsolete.
I was a heatset offset web pressman back in 60s & 70s when that that trade was expanding daily. Damn, but it was fun to be in demand and compensated accordingly. By the mid 90s, all were starting to die out or worse downgraded to semiskilled labor.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:43:48 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
To: left that other site
Humans don't do such a good job, either. This past weekend, I watching Lethal Weapon 2. Because I'm older now, I have background hearing problems, so I often turn on the closed caption program just so I don't miss the movie dialog.
In that scene where Murtaugh is trapped on the toilet bowl because of the bomb planted behind it. The bomb squad has done it's job, and now Murtaugh and Riggs are deciding when Riggs is going to pull Murtaugh into the bathtub and pull the blast blanket over them. So it's the usual, "Do we go on three, or is it one, two, three, then go?"
Rigg's line is, "Well, I don't know, Cochise, it's your [bottom].
The closed caption transcritionist came up with, "Well, I dunno, goat cheese . . ."
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:50:42 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: lewislynn
Very very true. I’m a corporate drone but the people and place where I am are great so it’s a trade-off.
My husband is a consultant - in less than 2 months he makes what it takes me a year to make.
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posted on
05/02/2013 11:54:15 AM PDT
by
Aria
( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
To: mnehring; MinuteGal
“Didnt another recent article list Underwriter as one of the best careers?”
I would think Undertaker would be a great career. An endless supply of customers.
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posted on
05/02/2013 12:47:47 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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