Good jobs which no longer exist

[Don Corleone]

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My brother in law worked for Kodak in the photograph film and paper division for many years. It closed around 15 years ago and all were made redundant .

[xsnaggle]

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And Snuffer Outers.

Actually the same person as Knocker Uppers (or Knockers Up) would often snuff out the gas lamps when they went around knocking on doors and windows to wake people up pre alarm clocks

Who knocked up the Knocker-upper?

[dandywarhol]

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Jobs gone from where I worked on the old electricty board.
Meter readers (Fing smart meters) , and a guy who went around in a van checking which street lights needed changing

He worked nights, did he?

Late afternoons.

[Elwood Blues]

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Youngster!
Paper tape in my early days.

Sadly Bob I remember paper tape as well.

My first proper job in Nat West Bank when I was past the making tea and doing the post stage was inputting the days work into a massive NCR machine which encoded a blue punch tape which was sent to a computer centre for overnight processing.

In those days if you paid money in or took it out at your own branch your account would not be updated until the following day.

If you used another branch or bank it took 3 days.

No ATM's in those day so it was useful to build up a good relationship with your local corner shop do you could cash a cheque if need be.

[William Treseder]

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Town Crier, or Bellman

[William Treseder]

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Don't get me started on this-it's my pet hate.Blue badge misuse is huge.

It’s wrong for able bodied folk to park in disabled spaces, but there are also many drivers who hold a blue badge that shouldn’t.

[Keyser Soze]

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Door to door insurance policy salesman

Video man (selling VHS and Beta max out of the back of his van)

Ice cream man

Lollipop lady

Trolley collectors at supermarket

Typist

[Keyser Soze]

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Elderly homes wardens. They always seemed to be a fat purple-haired lesbian types that would sit in their office all day pissed on whisky while half of the elderly residents carked it alone. I got the impression the wardens job was to begrudgingly find the bodies a week later and call your family and say “Oh I am awfully sorry but Granny Jones died today. By the way she had an outstanding bill of 7k if you could pay that please”. Their timing was as delicate as their personality.

Hospital pisspot assistant. They weren’t the nurse but just the poor soul that used to bring those things to your bed that looked like an empty egg box. You’d empty your tadge in them and shout “Here you go love, I’m done. Come get some”. What a job.

[splott parker]

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The groom of the stool (or maybe Charles does have his arse secretly wiped).

The insurance man, the rent man, the man who emptied the shillings out of the gas and electric meters.

[BLUETIT]

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Night watchmen. Use to love the fires they had, in the metal drums

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Train guard/brakeman

The ones that used to ride in the rear carriage of freight trains. Nice little log heaters they had in those things too.

[fingers]

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Fluffer at Jeffrey Epstein's mansion

[light up the darkness]

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Bouncer at Acorn nurseries