Ten Diminishing Careers Include Cashiers and Book Binders

Posted on January 23, 2007

Advancement in technologies combined with the offshoring (or outsourcing) of jobs to cheap overseas labor is pushing some careers towards extinction. AOL ran a list of ten jobs that that are dissapearing in an article titled, Going, Going, Gone. The ten rapidly shrinking jobs according to AOL are:

1. Cashiers
2. Couriers and Messengers
3. Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers and Weighers
4. Customer Service Representative
5. Book Binder
6. Film Processors
7. Fishers and Fishing Vessel Operators
8. Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers
9. Procurement Clerks
10. Power Plant Operators

For some of those jobs you have probably noticed that new do-it-yourself technologies are replacing workers. Other jobs are being offshored -- by now most everyone has talked to a customer service rep from India or elsewhere in the world. People still have these jobs today but they may not be careers you want to aspire towards if you are young and will soon be entering the workplace.

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