Life is moving on and some parts of the world are just getting the message, or are trying to ignore it.
Certain industries and careers are falling off as life goes on, thanks to technology, somethings become obsolete.
Let's discuss...
Redditor urklegrue3wanted to discuss the breeds of labor that are falling away, by asking:
"What’s a dying industry that no one realizes?"
So much has changed over the years.
We have to roll with it.
Does anyone remember the Cabbage Patch Kids?
They were a whole mega industry. Dead.
Just saying...
Inked Out
"Printers. Which is weird to say as I’m a printer repair tech. But yeah they are slowly dying out. My company has started diversifying into other areas because we literally had a drop of like 60% last year." ~ dreamnightmare
GiphyTeenage Dreams
"The teen magazine industry. I used to read them and they were so many, but now they’re just gone. They’re either online or non-existent. I really think that due to the Internet and social media, the purpose of those magazines is obsolete., to say the least." ~ lilasketching
"I used to have subscriptions to so many of the teen magazines…CosmoGirl, Seventeen, YM, Teen Vogue…now I can barely focus on magazines. It all seems so trite." ~ degrassipurist
The Arcade
"Also one no one thinks of is arcade game technician. There are already very few of these around and it's a dying breed. I know a few and they are older and ready to retire and there really aren't any that are young, if there are some that are young, we are talking very few and far between."
T"his was a very common job in the 1980's when arcades were booming. Someone had to keep the machines running. It's also very difficult to become an arcade game technician, you can't exactly go to school for it, there is probably only one traveling school in the USA that teaches this sort of thing."
"And even now it's more like being a casino slot machine technician. If you want to learn old school arcade game repair techniques you have to find someone who is older who is willing to teach you, and that will be very difficult." ~ SaraAB87
Death Becomes Us
Cemeteries. I think it is up to about 70% cremation and hardly anyone buys plots anymore. It really is a dying industry." ~ Afraid_Opportunity40
"I wont say cemeteries are dying since someone still needs to maintain these places, they’re just not expanding, worked at a cemetery for a couple years as a side job and we had loads of burials in that time but only a handful were in new plots. As you said most people choose cremations nowadays but they still bury the ashes in an urn for the most part."
"They tend to just put them in the family plot on top of grandma and grandpa so no need for any new land. The cemetery I worked at had like 2 acres mapped out for future expansion but at the rate we were going with selling those plots it’ll take them 1000 years to fill it up."
"I for one am not at all upset with this because let me tell you full burials are a pain in the ass. Most people probably don’t think about it but digging a grave is pretty much everything they tell you not to do when digging a hole. A 6 foot hole straight down with straight edges is extremely unstable so you’re constantly battling cave ins and often times have to jam some kind of shoring in there."
"Then you’d better hope the funeral home talked the family into buying a concrete grave liner or vault, otherwise when you bury the casket it’ll eventually break and cave in on itself again and you’ll have to go back and fix it cause you’ll have a sinkhole. A cremation burial is just a 2’x2’ hole dug with a shovel, takes up less space and is so much easier on the cemetery staff." ~ kg1206
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"These shoe-shining stores in NYC, can't understand how they afford the rent." ~ infomaticaddict
GiphyThose shoe shine people work hard.
I wonder about how they make it work.
Who stops for a shoe shine anymore?
pass the test...
"Standardized tests companies. There are many of them because they used to send out 10’s of thousands of paper copy tests. School districts are leaning more towards online testing, meaning one company can cover 100’s of thousands of people." ~ PM_ME_UR_PAYROLL
GiphyLost Balance
"Driveshaft repair/balancing. The one repair man we had in the city closed his doors because he had a HIGH demand but no one else works there and no one has the patience it takes to learn it and do it. He got tired of his customers not being patient enough to sit on his wait list." ~ ThisonetimeinNewYork
Into the Woods
"Forestry. Last I heard in the US the average age of a Forester was over 50+." ~ TeamCam8
"It sucks because I really wanted to get a degree in ecology and work at a national park, but when I researched the wages and looked into how many permanent jobs were available, the math just didn't add up for me. I'd owe too much in student loans, and I would have to move constantly because all of the work was seasonal. It's very unfortunate." ~ _AquaFractalyne_
Show me the light...
"How can Lamp Shade stores pay the rent?!?" ~ BigBl3uu
"My family friend just retired and closed her lampshade shop. Sure she sold individual lampshades and did repairs on lamp shades, and could even custom make lampshades, but their bread and butter was hotels, office buildings, interior design agencies, etc." ~ PDXgoodgirl
In Death
"I think the funeral business has priced themselves out of the market for the traditional embalming and burial that costs five figures. I know some conservative, religious family members that opted for cremation just because of the cost." ~ p38-lightning
GiphyFunerals are a mess. And burials even messier.
It feels like cremation is becoming the way to go.
Life is moving forward. Industries evolve, as must we.
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Curious to hear from strangers online about their teenage years, an anonymous Redditor asked:
"What was 'the incident' at your high school?"
Major school incidences ranged from the bizarre to tragedy.
Prank Gone Wrong
"Senior prank, someone dumped a few hundred pounds of flour and yeast into the school indoor pool, in hopes of turning it into a giant glob of dough (I guess). It didn’t work, just caused about 100K damage to plumbing, pumps, filters, etc. Prankster never caught."
– Sea_Ganache620
Cruel Morning
"In high school Two kids both named Logan. Both last names were very similar. One was popular and the other was not. Unpopular Logan was drunk and ran across a road in the middle of the night and was killed by a semi-truck."
"The next day the principal announced that popular Logan had died. Popular Logan was late for school."
"Everyone was very sad. Then popular Logan showed up and all school rejoiced that unpopular Logan was the one who died. Was f'ked up."
– AggressiveSmoke4054
Sudden Death
"A sophomore (my classmate) dropped unconscious in gym class and was rushed to the hospital. 3 days later they took him off life support and he died from a brain aneurysm."
"Edit to add: his funeral was held in the high school gym and damn near everyone went. Never in my life did I think I’d attend a funeral AT school."
– DisappointmentToMost
In The Nick Of Time
"A friend of mine in high school had a brain aneurysm, also as a sophomore. He'd been complaining for a few days about sudden, brief, very intense headaches. He was on the JV football team and went to play a game. Took a hard tackle and the aneurysm ruptured."
"That actually turned out to be the luckiest possible time for it to happen, because the school always had an ambulance on call at the side of the field during football games, so he was in the hands of EMTs within a minute of people realizing something was wrong. He was rushed to the hospital, they removed part of his skull to reduce the pressure on his brain and he spent a week or two in an induced coma. But in an absolute damn miracle, he made about as complete of a recovery as one can from that kind of injury; the only long-term effect was some very minor loss of muscle control in the left side of his face, so his smile was a little crooked."
"That was back in 2000."
"He just died three weeks ago from an accidental drug overdose."
– Lachwen
Lockdown
"A kid came to school with a machete and tree saw and slashed 7 students the day before Thanksgiving break."
"And a girl fell through the gym’s acoustic ceiling tiles and had to wear a halo."
– usfgirl1020
Incidences were not limited to just the students.
Murder
"A science teacher was beaten, chased and fatally set on fire by her husband who then shot himself."
– Fracture_98
Domestic Violence
"A teacher at the school I attended was being chased by her abusive husband. She drove to a police station with him following and tried to go inside but the doors were locked (it was some holiday). He shot her dead there and drove off. After that they made a rule to always have someone on staff and the doors unlocked."
– TheW83
There's no avoiding the brutal shaming that accompanies the high school experience.
Special Gym Class
"We had so many pregnant teen girls that they had their own gym class."
"A friend of mine who had a fake leg— he had a solid metal rod from mid thigh to mid calf from childhood leukemia so he couldn’t bend at the knee, was in the same class. Just this one poor guy and 30 pregnant 16 year olds."
"I was a teenager in the late 90s and grew up in the southeastern United States. It was a suburban area where a ton of people (still) identify as Evangelical Christians, it’s also called the Bible Belt. The required sex education classes didn’t teach anything but 'Just Say No' so there were girls who thought jumping up and down would prevent pregnancy. Not kidding. These were really sheltered girls who would attend Purity Dances, so it was quite a scandal that so many were pregnant at the same time. Most of the baby daddies were just dumb teenage boys who didn’t know the facts of life."
"Remember that there was no internet at this point so it’s not like teens could get information on their own especially if they were from a super religious background. A girl on my street was 'sent away' to live with an aunt when she got pregnant."
"Also, the pregnant girl gym class was technically for the physically disabled kids, hence why my friend was the lone guy in the class."
"His leg, from what he explained to me, had cancer in the bones of his knee. They didn’t want to amputate his whole leg so they removed the knee and grafted a rod in place— this would have been back in the late 80s so I’m sure they do stuff differently now."
– Malicious_Tacos
Students Can Be So Mean
"a girl had an epilepsy attack and she lost control of her bowels. Not a pretty sight."
"Mean girls type made fun of her, and she transferred to another high school."
– StuntCockofGilead
Teenagers deserve more credit than they're given.
These days, they are forced to grow up fast and learn important life lessons earlier than their parents like for them to experience due to various circumstances unfolding on campus.
If they can survive high school, they can survive almost anything in life past graduation.
