Discussion»Questions»Business» What jobs or businesses that you grew up with no longer exist? Which ones from today you don't see making it in the future?
The market suggests otherwise, Jewels. E-books are certainly a great way for archiving great libraries but they're becoming ever more popular with ordinary readers, too.
You know Mr D? You could have told me all those terms refer to brain surgery and would have believed you. I had to look all that stuff up. Can you still Morse if you had to? all I know in Morse code is. ( . . . _ _ . . . ) I tried to come up on my own with the meaning for comptometrist. But at the end had to look it up. ) What about packages, those will always need to be delivered, no?
Of course. In fact, with on line shopping, package delivery will become more important ... but the days of a postman humping a huge sack of letters have long gone and with the letters a thing of the past the majority of delivery jobs will follow.
BTW congratulations on asking one of the great questions. It's not often you can expect this kind of response.
It was the knife sharpening guy that made me think about it. I could not, for the life of me, come up with enough potential customers to justify his existence! Glis showed me that my thinking was quite obtuse. Thank you Mr D.
They're still around. Not as many as before but if you do a search for one you will find it. Just the other day I found one for a friend of mine who was complaining there was a problem with his TV.
There is one of those in town. A man sits in front of the door everyday, I have never seen anybody in the store but him. I went in once, I had to go see what was really in there. It was dark and very very dusty. I don't see how is it possible for him to stay open. If he was younger, I'd think the store is a front for selling drugs, I thought that or he's got some voodoo stuff going in the back. I don't get it.
Film developer! That's a good one. Weird how that went from One Hour Photo in every corner to where you have to go to a specialty shop now, You know? I was one of those saying, digital will never be good enough, and when shops started disappearing, I bought my own chemicals to develop film. Now I don't bother, I use a phone. I wonder if cameras themselves will disappear someday.
I had a long career in the professional photography business. When digital fist came along, none of us believed it would ever replace film. None of us believed digital would put so many studios and film processing places out of business.
Our little cellphones take better photos then most cameras and camcorders. My very expensive camcorder sitting in a cabinet, collecting dust. I cannot tell you how many videos I shot of my kids growing up and all those cassettes sit there collecting dust as well. *sigh.
You know what's something? All the time and effort i spent learning about aperture, f stops, exposure times, and all that. All I had to do was to just wait a little. You know?
I hear you! It was a lot to learn. I was a photo retoucher also. I used to do restoration work, all by hand. You name it, I did it. I eventually had my own successful business that only catered to professionals and had that business for many years.
It's hard to believe that what I used to do by hand in now a click or two of a mouse and some software that even amateurs can use.
The one thing at the very beginning of the digital photo revolution, that I could hold on to was digital inability to enlarge pictures without them getting all grainy. After they took care of that, and counting on my needs being those of an amateur photographer, once I could enlarge faithfully, that was it. I still think there's a difference but im thinking that's just me wanting there to be one. I think it's real cool that you know about all that!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
The only thing I miss now about the old film cameras is that nice satisfying mechanical click.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 12, 2017 1:57 PM MDT
I even miss the smell of film. There was something exciting about loading up a professional type camera, putting it up on a tripod, adjusting your settings, and waiting for the right moment for the "click".
Yeah there was. That click just gave you that " GOT IT! " feeling.
There was that excitement too of not knowing and then finding out how the pictures were going to come out. Having to decide quick if the scene was worth using an exposure. Meh, nostalgic romanticizing now.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 12, 2017 2:17 PM MDT
Ease of use and simplicity is great but there was that cool aspect of having lots of stuff to figure out and learn in the hobby. All the technical aspects and stuff. The accomplishment of getting it right and learning a new little thing all the time. Computers are kinda of the same way.
You got it though, only think back to the excitement and rewarding aspect they brought. Easily forget the anxiety and utter frustration that came by the bucket with all that.
Sorry for butting in guys. But... I really liked the naked red light bulb, and the picture slowly coming to view under the clear liquid. The picture taking itself had to be planned, as well. Now, I take dozens, hundreds of pictures about anything, if the exposure is wrong, or the framing, or anything, I just delete it. I can take fifty pictures to keep one. Couldn't really do that then.
I remember the thrill the first time I was ever in a dark room. So much went into creating an image. We used to shoot about 300 pictures for someone's wedding, hoping to have 50 really great images. Those were the days!
Yes! I remember taking my time and actually thinking about the picture I was taking, I had to think about the money I didn't want to spend on crappy pictures. Now when im out there and need to be in the frame, I tell them not to worry about it, "just take a bunch of of them, ill fix them If I need to". Im sure that by mere chance, one of two out of twenty or twenty five will be a good picture. Couldn't really do that then. )
I only got to develop my own film twice and that was in Scouts and school when we went to the Kodak film labs for field trips. It was indeed pretty cool watching it all happen.
I know it! The photo lab technician was like a pharmacist to me. Back there behind the counter wearing a white lab coat. As a kid I used to think that that guy was like a priest, knowing everybody's families and secrets, thru looking at their pictures. I thought he was like the pharmacist that knew all the medicine your family was taking, you know what I mean?
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