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"As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery...to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs."
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An interesting tidbit from NPR. Do you remember icemen and switchboard operators and pinsetters? These are jobs we call obsolete today, but what jobs will be obsolete in 20 years? 50 years?
