How is that still a job?

[funKYcat75]

Walking through Macy’s today and seeing the perfume ladies (and a gent or two) it made me start to wonder what jobs there are now that won’t exist in 10-20 years.

The whole Mall experience is dying, of course, but I’d have to think a late-middle-age woman trying to sell perfume to you will have to be out of of a job pretty soon.

 

[bluthruandthru]

Knockerupper

 

[Glenn's Take]

This is actually a very interesting question that to me goes back to the Vietnam War. Before that, there were a ton of jobs that today would require no college. Vietnam became a way for many people that would have never considered college before to consider it to get it away from there. That made those jobs require college forcing people to go to college that never would have thought about it before. I have friends that have paid over $50,000 for their kids to go to high school hoping that they don't go to college.
My bottom line is that college degrees have never meant less in this country than they do now.

 

[Gassy_Knowls]

Obstetrician

 

[Kooky Kats]

Nun

 

[faithful fan]

Newspaper Printers
Mail Carrier

 

[chroix]

Cashiers.

 

[catlanta33]

Cashiers.

Do you not use self-checkout? Sometimes it's like being stuck behind a blind person trying to solve a rubik's cube. I think they're safe for a bit longer.

 

[funKYcat75]

Do you not use self-checkout? Sometimes it's like being stuck behind a blind person trying to solve a rubik's cube. I think they're safe for a bit longer.

Agreed. Plus if you’ve ever done a real grocery run early in the morning and had to bag all that **** yourself because the lanes weren’t open yet, then you can appreciate cashiers.

 

[chroix]

Do you not use self-checkout? Sometimes it's like being stuck behind a blind person trying to solve a rubik's cube. I think they're safe for a bit longer.

Agreed. Plus if you’ve ever done a real grocery run early in the morning and had to bag all that **** yourself because the lanes weren’t open yet, then you can appreciate cashiers.

Lol. Self scan and pay at the pump have already eliminated a ton of those jobs. Same thing with banks. You think those jobs survive because customers aren’t good at them you’ve got another thing coming.

 

[Fact_Checker]

Newspaper Printers
Mail Carrier

Drove by the old Courier Journal plant today in Louisville yesterday. I think Gannett has regional printing places now and drives the papers overnight.

 

[blubo]

I remember cashiers in big grocery stores like kroger in the 1950-60s raking items past with their left hand and punching the cash register keys with their right hand. they were lightning fast. then they would count out your change to you, something many cashiers nowadays would be unable to do.

 

[vhcat70]

Do you not use self-checkout? Sometimes it's like being stuck behind a blind person trying to solve a rubik's cube. I think they're safe for a bit longer.

I'm not dumb enough to be stuck in self-checkout line when cashier lines are empty.

 

[vhcat70]

I remember cashiers in big grocery stores like kroger in the 1950-60s raking items past with their left hand and punching the cash register keys with their right hand. they were lightning fast. then they would count out your change to you, something many cashiers nowadays would be unable to do.

20 years ago when I paid cash at stores more often, if the bill was an oddball number, I'd say give the cashier say $20.28 ($20 bill) for a $14.28 bill & they'd be dumbfounded. I then told them to just key in the amount I gave them & they were surprised with the exact bill change I got.

 

[vhcat70]

Gas station attendant
Lawn mower repair

 

[vhcat70]

Wait till grills are banned for air pollution.

 

[JDHoss]

I remember cashiers in big grocery stores like kroger in the 1950-60s raking items past with their left hand and punching the cash register keys with their right hand. they were lightning fast. then they would count out your change to you, something many cashiers nowadays would be unable to do.

Aldi cashiers are lightning fast. Don't know how they are about making change because I use the card, but they are well trained at getting you checked out.

 

[Rebelfreedomeagle]

Aldi cashiers are lightning fast. Don't know how they are about making change because I use the card, but they are well trained at getting you checked out.

Fastest grocery shopping in the business. The way they operate their stores is one of the reasons I shop there. They can operate a store with 3 people. All staff are cross trained, very professional, and paid way more than industry average. The Lexington store once had a sign up for cashiers to $24 per hour, and this was a few years ago. I can't see their setup being more streamlined than it is now.

 

[DSmith21]

I am going with utility meter readers. I can see that being done remotely in the future.