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Are there any jobs and/or professions that no longer existed by the time you were born but you wish still existed today? ~

Posted - April 28, 2018
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  • 17592
    Yes.  I think I would have made a great stage-coach driver.  :)

      April 28, 2018 5:42 AM MDT
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  • 53503

      I know, right?



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      April 28, 2018 5:46 AM MDT
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  • 17592
    Yeeehawww! 
      April 28, 2018 5:56 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    It would be awesome to be a lighthouse keeper. I don't know if they've actually gone extinct and I'm too lazy to look it up.
      April 28, 2018 5:47 AM MDT
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  • 53503

      They're probably all automated by now, no people working inside them. 
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      April 28, 2018 6:04 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    Don't they need someone to maintain it though? I guess they wouldn't have to stay in the lighthouse all the time. I'd love to live in one. Maybe if I win the lottery, I can buy one just to live in it or just build a house that looks like a lighthouse on a cliff side.
      April 28, 2018 6:09 AM MDT
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  • 44602
    We have a lighthouse nearby at Marblehead, Ohio on Lake Erie. There is a house for a keeper, but I don't know if is manned. bhwilson would know more about it.
      April 28, 2018 2:52 PM MDT
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  • 44602
    There are still some around. I watched a documentary about them.
      April 28, 2018 2:44 PM MDT
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  • 53503

      Manned or unmanned?
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      April 28, 2018 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 44602
    The documentary was about the men who manned the. The just turned them on and off and changed the bulbs.
      April 29, 2018 6:32 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Town Executioner, often called the Headsman.

    This was a position of distinction, a man whose family was allotted a house apart from the townsfolk, who didn’t have to work a farm or run a shop, and often paid no taxes. He was paid by the local Lord for his services, and was one of the first professionals who could market his services to outside customers. A true early Capitalist.

    Being the heartless heathen that I am, I think our society of soft-hearted, litigious sissies has as much a need for a Headsman as ever before. 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 28, 2018 2:45 PM MDT
      April 28, 2018 5:50 AM MDT
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  • 17592
    Dude, not cool.............
      April 28, 2018 5:57 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Neither is supporting millions of irredeemable sociopaths on the public dime. 
      April 28, 2018 6:07 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I hope I'm not near you when Yogo Chopping :( 
      April 28, 2018 7:41 AM MDT
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  • 44602
    Here, here. Let's put it on the ballot.
      April 28, 2018 2:46 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    I would have rather  enjoyed to be a phonographic record player repair person.
      April 28, 2018 6:09 AM MDT
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  • 17592
    Oh yeah.....have a little shop out back...so much better than dressing and going to an office every day.  :)
      April 28, 2018 6:20 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    You don't needle records to play though......:)D
      April 28, 2018 7:32 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    Lamplighter...



      April 28, 2018 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 1633
      April 28, 2018 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    They would get on my Wick doing that all the time.....:( 
      April 28, 2018 7:33 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    But it's such an enlightening profession.
      April 28, 2018 7:35 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I like your bright ideas ....:) 
      April 28, 2018 7:50 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I think it's so wrong to make Light of jobs like that......:(D
      April 28, 2018 7:35 AM MDT
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