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Jobs From The '60s, '70s, And '80s That Are Now Gone

BuzzFeed·Haein Jung·19 days ago
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In this story , we wrote about the jobs from the past that ceased to exist today. And luckily, a bunch of people wrote in with their own experiences, and their responses felt like flipping through a history book! Along with a few responses from Reddit , here's what people said: 1. "My grandmother got her first job at Bell Telephone because she could roller skate! She raced numbers between operators to connect to other cities. She rose up the ladder without even an eighth-grade education and later became a trainer. She boasted of teaching college men how to train new telephone operators! This was the early 1910s." 2. "As a kid in the suburbs in 1962, I had an early morning paper route delivering the Chicago Tribune. My bike had three baskets: two alongside the back wheel, and a huge one in front. The bundles were dropped off, and I had to collate them and put them in a plastic bag. In the winter, I used my sled. I did it for three years, making $5 a week. I could buy anything I wanted.…

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