- Jan 29, 2019
A job lot - occupations from times gone by
This week’s article (more like a list) is another dive into my research with a little sidekick to the left. In other words, I started with looking for the job title of the guy who had to walk around lighting street lamps back in the 1800s (lamplighter) and was distracted by a whole raft of occupations no longer around. It started me thinking of the impact automation is having on our current economic situation and the rather obvious realisation that, of course, what goes aroun